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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Book Review
I first read Anne Fadiman’s 1997 award-winning book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures over 10 years ago as assigned reading in a graduate level anthropology class. … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, biomedical ethics, biomedicine, book reviews, ethnography, Hmong, nonfiction
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Of the 40+ books I read in 2012, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has probably been my favorite. In the 1950s doctors took cells from a thirty-one year old African-American woman dying from cervical cancer, without her consent or her family’s … Continue reading
Posted in Book Challenge
Tagged biology, biomedical ethics, book reviews, nonfiction, poverty, science writing
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Becky A. Johnson 