The scalpel and the silver bear
By: Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt.
Contributors: Cohen, Elizabeth.
Edition: Bantam trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Alvord, Lori Arviso; Women surgeons -- United States -- Biography; Navajo women -- United States -- Biography; Navajo Indians -- United States -- Social life and customs; Minorities in medicine -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
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.