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

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

Lori Arviso Alvord, Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

missing page info Add in missing page information • first pub 1999 (editions)

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In a remarkable book that takes the reader on a spellbinding journey between two worlds, surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord describes her struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico—and to bring the values of her peo...

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