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The scalpel and the silver bear

Author: Lori Arviso Alvord; Elizabeth Cohen
Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The author, the first Navajo woman surgeon, tells the story of how she was able to cut across cultural, class, and educational borders to become a part of the medical world; and discusses how she came to understand the power of Navajo thinking about health and illness to impact some of modern medicine's most daunting problems.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Alvord, Lori Arviso.
Scalpel and the silver bear.
New York : Bantam Books, c1999
(OCoLC)607174712
Online version:
Alvord, Lori Arviso.
Scalpel and the silver bear.
New York : Bantam Books, c1999
(OCoLC)609674074
Named Person: Lori Arviso Alvord; Lori Arviso Alvord
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lori Arviso Alvord; Elizabeth Cohen
ISBN: 0553100122 9780553100129
OCLC Number: 40675086
Description: xi, 204 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: ch. 1. Chantways --
ch. 2. Walking the path between worlds --
ch. 3. Journey down the medicine path --
ch. 4. Life out of balance --
ch. 5. Rez dogs and crow dreams --
ch. 6. Spiritual surgery --
ch. 8. "Navajo Plague" --
ch. 9. Two weddings --
ch. 10. At the big medicine space --
ch. 11. "Do Not Try to Count the Stars" --
ch. 12. Spirit Horse's bridle --
ch. 13. Knotted sash --
ch. 14. Mount Taylor in the rearview mirror.
Responsibility: Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt.
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The author, the first Navajo woman surgeon, tells the story of how she was able to cut across cultural, class, and educational borders to become a part of the medical world; and discusses how she came to understand the power of Navajo thinking about health and illness to impact some of modern medicine's most daunting problems.

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