Research Catalog

Title

Shaman, M.D. : a plastic surgeon's remarkable journey into the world of shapeshifting / Eve Bruce.

Author

Bruce, Eve, 1954-

Publication

Rochester, Vt. : Destiny Books, c2002.

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Details

Description

185 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"As a dual board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and the first non-Quechua woman to be initiated into the Circle of Yachaks (bird-people shamans of the Andes), Dr. Eve Bruce sees herself as an agent of change in both worlds. After travelling to the Andes and the Amazon River basin of South America to study indigenous healing techniques, Bruce realized that although our culture is obsessed with narrowly defined standards of physical beauty, we actually devalue the physical because we separate it from the spiritual. She saw that her plastic surgery patients who felt ashamed of their 'vanity' had the least successful outcomes. Those ready for change on emotional and spiritual levels were able to use the physical 'shapeshift' provided by the surgeon's knife to transform their entire lives. By integrating the two healing modalities of surgeon and shaman, Bruce is able to help people shapeshift into newfound health on all levels--physical, emotional, and spiritual. Because she bore her first child at sixteen, rose to the challenges of single motherhood, and worked her way through medical school, Bruce learned early to redirect the flow of her life, turning apparent obstacles into opportunities. As a powerful example of the human capacity for self-transformation, Bruce is uniquely qualified to inspire readers to redirect their own lives to a place of beauty and self-acceptance."--back cover.

Subject

• Bruce, Eve, 1954-
• Surgery, Plastic
• Shamanism
• Complementary Therapies
• Plastic surgeons > United States > Biography
• Shamanism > Ecuador
• Plastic Surgery Procedures

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0892819766

LCCN

^^2001006311

OCLC

• 48249166
• SCSB-11986491

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library