The scalpel and the silver bear

By Lori Arviso Alvord

Subjects: Biography, Navajo Indians, Physicians, biography, Women physicians, Surgery, Navajo women, Women surgeons, Social life and customs, Minorities in medicine, General Surgery, Indians of north america, medicine, Women Physicians

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.