TY  - JOUR
T1  - Child abuse and culture: Working with diverse families
AU  - Campbell KA
Y1  - 2006/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.160.3.325
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 325
EP  - 325
VL  - 160
IS  - 3
N2  - 
After finishing Lisa Aronson Fontes' Child Abuse and Culture: Working With Diverse Families, I found myself rereading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,1 Anne Fadiman's story of a Hmong family and the medical, social, and legal systems of central California caring for Lia, a young girl with a severe seizure disorder. The book alternates the perspective of Lia's well-meaning American pediatricians with the perspective of her well-meaning immigrant parents, pulling the reader along the tumbling downhill course of 1 child caught between 2 cultures. In the end, Lia does poorly, her parents are grieving, and her pediatricians are saddened and frustrated by the outcome.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.160.3.325
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.3.325
ER  -