Bowdoin College’s McKeen Center for the Common Good will be hosting an online conversation with Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. For those of you who have not read it, this book is a wonderful treatment of the importance of cultural competency in medicine. This will be a live event with viewer participation streamed on Bowdoin’s website on Tuesday, April 1st at 8:00 p.m. (EST). Professor Susan Bell (Sociology and Anthropology) and Professor Steve Loebs (Research Associate of McKeen Center and Professor Emeritus, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University) will moderate a conversation on The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman. Professors Bell and Loebs will be joined by the author to discuss the book and answer questions e-mailed in by viewers. Those of you in the Class of 2005 may remember that this was your first year book discussed at orientation. Amazon describes it in the following way: “The book explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia’s parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman’s compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.” [cid:image001.png@01CF4759.0AC703F0] Seth J. Ramus, PhD Director, Health Professions Advising Bowdoin College 4901 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 207.725.3624 207.798.7072 (f)
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