Neil and Peggy called CPS for child abuse but they learned from a San Francisco doctor that the lesions were the result of dermal treatments- and that they were a "traditional healing art," not a form of abuse. some doc fear it would spread hepatitis B which 15% of Hmong carry Healing process: scars that look like burns on the body on patients. Cultural believes in the placenta some doc refused to give placenta to Hmong b/c they though Hmong were going to eat it and that it was disgusting. the landlord told Hmong women to move out and called police after the landlord found out her family was about to sacrifice a pig. Ceremony: called a hu plig, or soul-calling, sacrificed a pig and chickens, sometimes they want to do it in the hospital.
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