The scalpel and the silver bear / Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt.
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 people to a medical care system in danger of losing its...
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New York :
Bantam Books,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Chantways
- ch. 2. Walking the path between worlds
- ch. 3. Journey down the medicine path
- ch. 4. Life out of balance
- ch. 5. Rez dogs and crow dreams
- ch. 6. Ceremony medicine
- ch. 7. Spiritual surgery
- ch. 8. "Navajo Plague"
- ch. 9. Two weddings
- ch. 10. At the big medicine space
- ch. 11. "Do Not Try to Count the Stars"
- ch. 12. Spirit Horse's bridle
- ch. 13. Knotted sash
- ch. 14. Mount Taylor in the rearview mirror.