Used. Paperback. Anne Fadiman’s brilliant ethnography maps the high-stakes cultural collision between traditional Hmong healing and Western medicine in a California hospital. When a young epileptic girl named Lia becomes the battleground for her family and her physicians, clashing cosmologies create a heartbreaking crisis of care. It’s an empathetic, beautifully researched exploration of how miscommunication can be just as perilous as any illness. If you want a thought-provoking read that will cure your superficial thinking, step up to the counter and grab this one.