The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Chapter 4 Do Doctors Eat Brains? Instructions: Read Chapter 4 “Do Doctors Eat Brains?” Then, answer the four questions below using complete sentences. Answer each question with a complete response.

1. Name three misconceptions that some Hmong people had about American doctors before they came to the United States: Dwight Conquergood

2. Some American doctors and/or nurses thought that Hmong people ate their placentas. How is this similar to Hmong people thinking that American doctors eat brains?

3. Why did only the poorest people with no relatives or resources whatsoever “subject themselves to the camp hospital treatment”? Why didn’t wealthier people go to the hospital?

4. Why does International Rescue Committee volunteer Dwight Conquergood believe that “what the medical establishment was offering would continue to be rejected” by the Hmong people there?