Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska

About the author

Robert Fortuine is a physician who has spend 22 years in Alaska, most of them as either a clinician or a hospital director with the Indian Health Service. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the Biomedical Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he teaches clinical medicine to the first-year medical students in the Washington/Alaska/Montana/Idaho (WAMI) program affiliated with the University of Washington Medical School. He has written extensively on the history of medicine in Alaska and the arctic regions. The Alaska Historical Society named him Alaska Historian of the Year in 1990 in recognition of his book Chills and Fever.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Fortuine
• Publisher: Univ Of Alaska Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1992
• EAN: 9780912006581
• ISBN: 978-0-912006-58-1
• No. of pages: 393
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 227 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous