The scalpel and the silver bear
By: Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
Contributors: Cohen, Elizabeth
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780553100129
Subjects: Social life and customs; Navajo women; Navajo Indians; Women surgeons; Minorities in medicine; Women Physicians; General Surgery; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-204).
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Chantways -- -- ch. 2.; title: Walking the path between worlds -- -- ch. 3.; title: Journey down the medicine path -- -- ch. 4.; title: Life out of balance -- -- ch. 5.; title: Rez dogs and crow dreams -- -- ch. 6.; title: Spiritual surgery -- -- ch. 8.; title: "Navajo Plague" -- -- ch. 9.; title: Two weddings -- -- ch. 10.; title: At the big medicine space -- -- ch. 11.; title: "Do Not Try to Count the Stars" -- -- ch. 12.; title: Spirit Horse's bridle -- -- ch. 13.; title: Knotted sash -- -- ch. 14.; title: Mount Taylor in the rearview mirror.