ANTC61H3 Chapter Notes -Acculturation, Night Terror, Electrical Conduction System Of The Heart
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~100 southeast asians in the united states have died from the mysterious disorder that is now known as sunds (sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome). High incidence among loatians (particularly male hmong refugees). At its peak, the rate of death was 92 per 100 000l; equivalent to the sum of the rates of the five leading causes of natural death among united states males. Despite numerous studies of sunds, medical scientists have not been able to determine exactly what is causing the deaths of these healthy people in their sleep. Argument: biomedicine cannot explain for the cause of sunds but the author proposes that an investigation of hmong traditional beliefs can reveal the event that triggers the fatal syndrome. When author used the word nightmare" she does not use it in the modern sense of a bad dream but as the nocturnal visit of an evil being.
