The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by Lori Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing

Lori Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

224 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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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 i...

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inspiring 84%
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reflective 53%
emotional 23%
mysterious 7%
relaxing 7%

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slow 7%

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