Winter book club selection: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down!
by Jill Shah on December 5, 2011
It’s almost time to begin the globalhealthU Winter Break Book Club!
Hundreds of you voted, and we're reading... The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman! When a young Hmong child, Lia Lee, is diagnosed with severe epilepsy at three months, she becomes entrenched in the American medical system. This is the story of the treatment of a child in an atmosphere of cultural misunderstanding.
The book is available on Amazon for less than $10!
We will officially start reading on Tuesday, December 13th, but feel free to begin whenever works best for you and read at whatever pace you like. Stay plugged in with blog posts about the book’s themes and personal reflections on the GlobeMed website, and comment to contribute your own ideas!
You also have the option of being in a discussion group. Just fill out the survey below, and we’ll place you in a group of 5-7 GlobeMedders with whom to keep in contact over break. Additionally, you may elect to be a small group leader, who organizes and facilitates group discussion. If you choose to be in a small group, you will decide together what’s the best way for you to talk about the book, whether it’s Skype, an e-mail thread, a facebook group, or, if you’re nearby, a meet-up. However you choose to engage as a group is up to you!
If you're interested in further participation, you also have the opportunity to be a guest blogger for Article 25, the GlobeMed blog. Guest Bloggers have the chance to share their thoughts on the book and ask the GlobeMed community for input. They can steer the conversation of the book for the entire network.
If you want to be a small group member, a small group leader, OR a guest blogger, fill out this survey by Friday, December 9th.
Participation in the Winter Break Book Club is 100% optional. We encourage members to take as large or small of a role as they like, whether that means reading the book by yourself, following the blog conversation, or participating in a discussion group. We hope Winter Break Book Club will allow GlobeMed to engage as a community around one topic. It will allow us think critically as an organization about one issue and connect with one another. The Winter Break Book Club will continue our understanding of global health over break, and re-energize our purpose as we move into a new year of GlobeMed!
If you have any questions, please email us at .
Can’t wait to read with you!
Hundreds of you voted, and we're reading... The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman! When a young Hmong child, Lia Lee, is diagnosed with severe epilepsy at three months, she becomes entrenched in the American medical system. This is the story of the treatment of a child in an atmosphere of cultural misunderstanding.
The book is available on Amazon for less than $10!
We will officially start reading on Tuesday, December 13th, but feel free to begin whenever works best for you and read at whatever pace you like. Stay plugged in with blog posts about the book’s themes and personal reflections on the GlobeMed website, and comment to contribute your own ideas!
You also have the option of being in a discussion group. Just fill out the survey below, and we’ll place you in a group of 5-7 GlobeMedders with whom to keep in contact over break. Additionally, you may elect to be a small group leader, who organizes and facilitates group discussion. If you choose to be in a small group, you will decide together what’s the best way for you to talk about the book, whether it’s Skype, an e-mail thread, a facebook group, or, if you’re nearby, a meet-up. However you choose to engage as a group is up to you!
If you're interested in further participation, you also have the opportunity to be a guest blogger for Article 25, the GlobeMed blog. Guest Bloggers have the chance to share their thoughts on the book and ask the GlobeMed community for input. They can steer the conversation of the book for the entire network.
If you want to be a small group member, a small group leader, OR a guest blogger, fill out this survey by Friday, December 9th.
Participation in the Winter Break Book Club is 100% optional. We encourage members to take as large or small of a role as they like, whether that means reading the book by yourself, following the blog conversation, or participating in a discussion group. We hope Winter Break Book Club will allow GlobeMed to engage as a community around one topic. It will allow us think critically as an organization about one issue and connect with one another. The Winter Break Book Club will continue our understanding of global health over break, and re-energize our purpose as we move into a new year of GlobeMed!
If you have any questions, please email us at .
Can’t wait to read with you!
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