Published October, 2012
By George Blue Spruce and Deanne Durrett
Publisher: Bison Books
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The first American Indian dentist in the United States, George Blue Spruce Jr's life story reaches back to the ancient Pueblo culture cherished by his grandparents and parents and extends to state-of-the-art dentistry and the current needs of the American Indian people.

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Published June, 2011
By David Peck, Moira Ambrose and David J. Peck
Publisher: Bison Books
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Ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed, but the author patiently, expertly - and humorously - guides us through the medical travails of the famous journey, juxtaposing treatment then against remedy now.

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Published April, 2011
By Arthur Martin, Glyn Harper and Arthur Anderson Martin
Publisher: Bison Books
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Considered by critics to be an accurate portrayal of frontline medical conditions, A Surgeon in Khaki is New Zealand surgeon Arthur Anderson Martin's account of his experiences in 1914, early in World War I. In this engaging narrative, the reader experiences the daily life of war through the eyes of the medical officers who tried valiantly to help the wounded and ill on the front lines.

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Published January, 2011
By Sander L. Gilman
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The fat man - a cultural icon, a social enigma, a pressing medical issue - is the subject of this remarkably rich book. The figures that Sander L. Gilman considers, from the ugly fat man with the beautiful sylph trapped inside to the smart fat boy to the aging body desirous of rejuvenation, appear and reappear in different guises throughout Western culture.

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Published July, 2009
By Lynne Hugo
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""This is Hannah,"" Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. ""Would you like to pat her?"" ""I don't know,"" the woman responds warily. ""Dogs are complicated."" Where the Trail Grows Faint is the story of Hugo's experiences with Hannah and the elderly patients they visit.

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Published October, 2008
By Robert Franklin and Flint Whitlock
Publisher: Bison Books
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A memoir of American, Jewish military doctor fighting on the frontlines and caring for the injured in WWII. It documents the almost unbearable drama of ground gained and lives lost as well as the terrible human toll of battle on the author, his comrades, and civilians quite literally caught in the crossfire.

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Published September, 2007
By Mary Felstiner
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Mary Felstiner went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother and woke the next morning literally out of joint. With hands and arms no longer working right, she had discovered a first sign of rheumatoid arthritis. This book tells both the personal and the public story of this prevalent yet neglected disease.

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Published March, 2007
By Charles Barber
Publisher: Bison Books
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Published October, 2006
By Alma Hogan Snell, Lisa Castle and Kelly Kindscher
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A collection of Crow recipes, age-old plant medicines and healing remedies. This work imparts the lore of ages along with the traditional Crow philosophy of healing and detailed practical advice for finding and harvesting plants.

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