Title: The scalpel and the silver bear
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Navajo women, Navajo Indians, Women surgeons, Minorities in medicine, Women Physicians, General Surgery, Biography, Women physicians, Physicians, biography, Indians of north america, medicine, Surgery
Places: United States
People: Lori Arviso Alvord