Chills and Fever
October 21, 2012
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/authors/fortuine.cfm Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska Papers presented at…
Robert Fortuine
Professor Biomedical Program: Medical Degree, McGill University, Masters in Public Health, Harvard University. Robert Fortuine is a public health physician. He received his medical degree from McGill University in 1960 and his Masters of Public Health from Harvard University in 1968. Fortuine served with the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) from 1961 until his retirement in 1987. He first came to Alaska in 1963, and has held the following positions in Alaska: service unit director for the USPHS Alaska Native Hospital in Kanakanak (1963-1964); service unit director for the USPHS Alaska Native Hospital in Bethel (1964-1967); director of the USPHS Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage (1971-1977); and deputy chief of family medicine (1980-1987). Doctor Fortuine has also been active in national and Alaskan medical professional associations, as well as the American Society for Circumpolar Health and the International Symposium for Circumpolar Health. He was recently awarded the Jack Hildes Medal June 8 at the 11th International Congress of Circumpolar Health in Harstad, Norway, and has twice (1990 and 2006) won the Alaska Historian of the Year Award. Dr. Fortuine has taught in the WWAMI program from 1989 until the present time. He has published numerous articles on medicine and Alaskan and native medical history, and has authored books including: The Alaska Diary of Adelbert von Chamisso: Naturalist on the Kotzebue Voyage, 1815-1818 (translator and editor, 1986), Alaska Native Medical Center: A History 1953-1983 (1986), and Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska (1989), The Words of Medicine: Sources, Meanings, and Delights (2001), 'Must We All Die?' Alaska's Eduring Struggle with Tuberculosis (2005), and A Century of Adventure in Northern Health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska (1879-1978) (2006).
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