Draft:Robert Fortuine

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Robert Fortuine is a doctor and historian. He has written about Alaska, tuberculosis, parasites, and a bibliography of Inuit works. He trained to be a doctor at McGill University in Canada. He is married to wife Sheila. He retired to Wasila, Alaska. He received a J. A. Hildes Medal in Circumpolar Health and two Historian of the Year awards from the Alaska Historical Society.

He directed the Alaska Native Medical Center from 1971–1977.

Writings
University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks
 * The health of the Eskimos; a bibliography, 1857–1967
 * The health of the Inuit of North America: a bibliography from the earliest times through 1990
 * Polar Notes as the Health care and the Alaska Native: some historical perspectives
 * The Alaska Diary of Adelbert von Chamisso: Naturalist on the Kotzebue Voyage, 1815–1818, translation
 * Alaska Native Medical Center: A History 1953–1983
 * Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska
 * The Words of Medicine: Sources, Meanings, and Delights
 * Must We All Die?": Alaska's Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis
 * A Century of Adventure in Northern Health; The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska 1879-1978 (2006)