The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
Author:	Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
Title:	The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
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Publisher:	Bantam
ISBN:	0553378007
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Comments:	This book is written by a Navajo woman surgeon.  The story describes her own experiences as a minority medical student and her journey to reconcile traditional Navajo healing beliefs with modern medical science.  The book is engaging since most of the story is told firsthand by the author. (M. Kirkegaard)
This resource may be available on reserve and/or available for check-out at the Midwestern University Library.  If you are an MWU preceptor and are interested in borrowing a copy from the library, please contact Margaret Kirkegaard.  You should include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and the name of the resource you are interested in.