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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear : The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Author: Lori Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing. — A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico--and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of l...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780553378009
ISBN-10: 0553378007
Publication Date: 6/6/2000
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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