[NIFL-WORKPLACE:3251] The rest of the informtion on the NIFL Health Guest Speaker

From: Heidi Watson (haw6@psu.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 08:42:19 EST


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Sorry Subscribers the last part seems to have fallen off:

Some of you may be familiar with the book _The Spirit Catches You and You
Fall Down_.  The author, Anne Fadiman, will respond to questions this
month on the NIFL-Health list. If this is of interest, read NIFL-Health
Co-moderator Helen Osborne's message below.  To subscribe to NIFL-Health.
go to http://www.nifl.gov (push the Discussion button and wend your way to
the NIFL Health page where you can subsscribe from the Web page.)

Heidi Watson
NIFL-Workplace Co-Moderator

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:57:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Helen Osborne <Helen@healthliteracy.com>
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Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2114] Invited Guest

Last month, many of you shared your thoughts and ideas about NIFL-Health.
You spoke highly about this discussion group, and said you value it as a
forum to interact with colleagues at all levels of expertise. You also gave
some specific suggestions to improve NIFl-Health, and one was to invite
special guests to the list, as we have done in the past.

Great news! Anne Fadiman, author or "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall
Down" and "Ex Libris" has agreed to contribute to our discussion. For those
of you who are not familiar with her work, "The Spirit Catches You." is
about "a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two
cultures" (quote on the cover of the book) and is a winner of the National
Book Critics Circle Award. There was an active discussion about this book on
NIFL-Health several months ago, and the postings can be found in our
archives (www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-health/health_literacy.html)

Anne Fadiman has agreed to answer up to a dozen questions about
cross-cultural medical care. It seems the easiest way to make this happen is
for you to send your questions to me by January 17th.  I will then
cluster/organize/summarize them, and forward them to Anne Fadiman. She,
then, will respond towards the end of January.

A one-time only guest is a new model for our discussion group - and
hopefully will be a workable way to "converse" with a noted author.
Together, let's make it work!

Helen Osborne, MEd., OTR/L
Co-moderator, NIFL-Health
&
Health Literacy Consulting, Natick, MA
Phone: 508-653-1199 * Fax: 508-650-9492
Helen@healthliteracy.com * www.healthliteracy.com



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