[The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Ann Fadiman ] The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , by Ann Fadiman, is considered of the genre medical anthropology.  I had never actually heard of this subfield of anthropology but it “examines the cultural, social, and biological factors that influence health, illness, and healthcare practices.”  The author herself is not an anthropologist, she is a wri