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The scalpel and the silver bear / Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7749
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Van Pelt Library RD27.35.A45 A3 1999
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Van Pelt Library RD27.35.A45 A3 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alvord, Lori Arviso, author.
- Cohen, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alvord, Lori Arviso.
- Women surgeons--United States--Biography.
- Women surgeons.
- Navajo Indians.
- Manners and customs.
- United States.
- Navajo women--United States--Biography.
- Navajo women.
- Navajo Indians--United States--Social life and customs.
- Minorities in medicine--United States--Biography.
- Minorities in medicine.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7749)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 204 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, [1999]
- Summary:
- "Healing is not only a one-to-one relationship, it is multidimensional. This is at the basis of Navajo philosophy. We call it "Walking in Beauty." It is a way of living a balanced and harmonious life, in touch with all the components of one's world. This, not increased technology and more and more layers of bureaucracy, is the path we must now take to achieve better health and healing and life. The latest breakthroughs of research and methodology are stunning achievements and must be acknowledged as such, but along the way we have forgotten some of the things that heal us best -- our relationships, how we live our lives, our feelings of wholeness and belonging."--back of dust jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Chantways 5
- Chapter 2 Walking the Path Between Worlds 17
- Chapter 3 Journey Down the Medicine Path 34
- Chapter 4 Life Out of Balance 57
- Chapter 5 Rez Dogs and Crow Dreams 79
- Chapter 6 Ceremony Medicine 90
- Chapter 7 Spiritual Surgery 107
- Chapter 8 The "Navajo Plague" 116
- Chapter 9 Two Weddings 128
- Chapter 10 At the Big Medicine Space 137
- Chapter 11 "Do Not Try to Count the Stars" 150
- Chapter 12 The Spirit Horse's Bridle 157
- Chapter 13 A Knotted Sash 171
- Chapter 14 Mount Taylor in the Rearview Mirror 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7749: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription and author's autograph on leaf 2 recto: For David (Professor Morris :) ) May you 'Walk in Beauty", Lori Alvord, 3/26/03. Some pencil notes in margins. With dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0553100122
- OCLC:
- 40675086
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