Anthropology Book review: The spirit catches you and you fall down: Name Course Instructor Date A] Discuss the central conflict of the book, i.e., the clash between the culture of the Hmong and the culture of ‘western biomedicine.’ Why did the Lees act as they did regarding Lia Lee’s condition? Why did her doctors act as they did? How did their (both the Lees’ and the doctors’) attitudes and actions reflect their underlying cultural beliefs regarding the body, wellness, illness, and healing? There is a conflict between Lia Lee’s parents and the medical doctors’ on the best remedy to treat the epileptic episodes suffered by Lia Lee. The family believed that the genesis of Lia’s body reaction was experiencing noise that led to her soul leaving her body. As such, it is both a spiritual and medical issue to the Lee family, with their traditions seen as being suited to improve Lia’s health condition. The use of complementary and alternative medicine and appeasing the spirits is seen as a necessary intervention. Nonetheless, the Hmong are also undecided on the best course of action, since ‘Qaug Dab Peg’ (epilepsy) could represent danger and peculiarity (Fadiman, 1997). The doctors were schooled to use scientific data, and they followed these recommendations on how to treat patients with epilepsy without explaining to the patient’s family how conventional medicine would be beneficial. There was miscommunic...