EDSP 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anne Fadiman, Multicultural Education, Brain Death
3 Dec 2017
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Pledge: i promise that i did not receive any unwarranted assistance on this homework. The spirit catches you and you fall down: a hmong child, her american doctors and the. Collision of cultures by anne fadiman: this book presents cultural differences of healing practices. United states, there tends to be a dualism of mind and body in healing practices, while in the hmong culture the mind and body are often viewed as one. Special education and teaching fit into the idea of dualism vs. combination of mind and body because it"s so important that a child has an encompassed education, supportive environment, strong communication and support between parents and teachers, etc. At the end of the story, lia is technically alive but she is brain dead. In the final chapter, talking about the book, the author asserts that lia lived 5 times longer than expected for someone in her position (which tells a reader that she has passed).
