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

People: Lori Arviso Alvord

Places: United States