1. Familial Health Traditions – Post a narrative on who you are in the context of your life and
family background, answering the following questions (in a minimum of 250 words): Who are you?
Where did your family originate?
What are the health and illness beliefs and practices that have been passed on through
your family?
Is there a difference in your or your family’s definitions of health vs. HEALTH and illness
vs. ILLNESS? Why?
Tell what practices you plan to carry forward in your life and which ones you won’t and
why.
If your family really doesn’t have many traditions, do you think traditions are important
and do you want to develop some?
What new discoveries have you made as part of your participation in this class?
family background, answering the following questions (in a minimum of 250 words): Who are you?
Where did your family originate?
What are the health and illness beliefs and practices that have been passed on through
your family?
Is there a difference in your or your family’s definitions of health vs. HEALTH and illness
vs. ILLNESS? Why?
Tell what practices you plan to carry forward in your life and which ones you won’t and
why.
If your family really doesn’t have many traditions, do you think traditions are important
and do you want to develop some?
What new discoveries have you made as part of your participation in this class?
Directions:
1. Please consider one of the following questions in your initial posting (a minimum of 250
words):
A. What are the most important aspects of Hmong culture? What do the Hmong consider their
most important duties and obligations? How did they affect the Hmong’s transition to the
United States?
B. What does Dan Murphy mean by, “When you fail one Hmong patient, you fail the whole
community” (p. 253)?
C. It is clear that many of Lia’s doctors, most notably Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp, were heroic in
their efforts to help Lia, and that her parents cared for her deeply, yet this arguably preventable
tragedy still occurred. Can you think of anything that might have prevented it?
D. What did you learn from this book? Would you assign blame for Lia’s tragedy? If so, to
whom? What do you think Anne Fadiman feels about this question?
1. Please consider one of the following questions in your initial posting (a minimum of 250
words):
A. What are the most important aspects of Hmong culture? What do the Hmong consider their
most important duties and obligations? How did they affect the Hmong’s transition to the
United States?
B. What does Dan Murphy mean by, “When you fail one Hmong patient, you fail the whole
community” (p. 253)?
C. It is clear that many of Lia’s doctors, most notably Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp, were heroic in
their efforts to help Lia, and that her parents cared for her deeply, yet this arguably preventable
tragedy still occurred. Can you think of anything that might have prevented it?
D. What did you learn from this book? Would you assign blame for Lia’s tragedy? If so, to
whom? What do you think Anne Fadiman feels about this question?
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