Author to Talk About Lessons Learned in Care Across Cultures
Anne Fadiman, an author, editor and teacher, will talk at UCSF about the lessons she has learned in cross-cultural health care on Wednesday, May 7, from noon to 1 p.m. in Cole Hall on the Parnassus campus.
Fadiman, an adjunct professor of English and Francis Writer in Residence at Yale University, also will deliver grand rounds on care across cultures on May 7 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Carr Auditorium at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.
Fadiman's first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, chronicles the cross-cultural conflicts between an epileptic Hmong child and her family and the American health care system in Merced, California. She will discuss how American health care providers can offer more sensitive and effective care for patients from other cultures. Fadiman will sign books following the event. Her book, which continues to be taught at universities both as literary journalism and as a casebook for cross cultural sensitivity in general, won her a National Book Critics' Circle Award. The Washington Post called the book "an intriguing, spirit-lifting, extraordinary exploration." Fadiman's visit to UCSF is sponsored by the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, UCSF Chapter Class of 2008, the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, UCSF Medical Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. Related Links: Yale University, Department of English
Fadiman, an adjunct professor of English and Francis Writer in Residence at Yale University, also will deliver grand rounds on care across cultures on May 7 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Carr Auditorium at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.
Fadiman's first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, chronicles the cross-cultural conflicts between an epileptic Hmong child and her family and the American health care system in Merced, California. She will discuss how American health care providers can offer more sensitive and effective care for patients from other cultures. Fadiman will sign books following the event. Her book, which continues to be taught at universities both as literary journalism and as a casebook for cross cultural sensitivity in general, won her a National Book Critics' Circle Award. The Washington Post called the book "an intriguing, spirit-lifting, extraordinary exploration." Fadiman's visit to UCSF is sponsored by the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, UCSF Chapter Class of 2008, the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, UCSF Medical Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. Related Links: Yale University, Department of English