The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores what happens when Western medicine and Eastern spirituality meet; it's an excellent anthropological and epidemiological study. More than anything, it cautions us all against automatically assuming our own (rationalist) views are correct, and urges us to take as sympathetic of a view as possible of alternate perspectives.