Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

March 24th, 2006

Karen Fluegel, former teacher at the Moravian Children’s Home and retired manager of the Moravian Book Store, recommends reading these books. They should be available at the Kuskokwim Consortium Library.

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

by Robert Fortuine. 1989. Publisher: University of Alaska Press. ISBN: 0912006587 (an excellent book)

Alaska’s Search for a Killer: A Seafaring Medical Adventure 1946-1948

by Susan Meredith with Kitty Gair and Elaine Schwinge. 1998. Published by Alaska Public Health Nurses Assoc. (about the ship of nurses which visited Villages, 1946-48) 0-965984-91-5, http://www.uaf.edu/uapress/books/AlaskasSearchforaKiller.htm

Eskimo Medicine Man

by Otto George. Publisher: Oregon Historical Society (1978). ISBN: 0875950620 (based at Akiak PHS hospital before it moved to Bethel).

Frontier Physician: The Life and Legacy of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht

by Nancy Jordan. 1996. Publisher: Epicenter Pr. ISBN: 094539750X (first Alaska health commissioner).

5 Responses to “Alaska History reading list”

YK Alaska » Blog Archive » Cangerlaagpiit (Epidemics) — historical lessons Says:
April 15th, 2006 at 4:53 pm

[…] I would like to encourage a school class, maybe history or social studies or language, to collate the best suggestions from the published histories, so we could share them on this site. Here are some examples I had previously run across. Also a suggested reading list (see my comment on this post. Karen Fluegel’s reading list here) Pam ….Nowadays, many people believe that more children could have survived the epidemic, if their parents had known how to care for them. But because they had not encountered this kind of sickness before, many parents did not know what to do. For example, when temperatures of the children became extremely high, many parents did not attempt to cool them down. Some who did survive—and who are still alive today—may owe their survival to parents who had better information about how to care for them…. Lesson II: History of the Cup’ik People http://www.alaskool.org/projects/chevak/chevak/LessonII.html […]

YK Alaska » Blog Archive » Sanitizers — Handwashing Says:
April 16th, 2006 at 6:23 pm

[…] Practice. Karen Fluegel remembers at the Children’s Home, each child had their own copy of a TB booklet from the state health department. Ever day, teachers instructed students on that booklet about TB to prevent its spread. […]

Pam Says:
June 16th, 2006 at 8:46 pm

If looking for more info on Moravian Church in our area, start with some of these references here (the history book of the Alaskan Moravian Church is no longer in print.)
Small Business in Western Alaska -
http://tinyurl.com/o8h97

Pam Says:
July 5th, 2006 at 9:46 pm

A reader has led me to the UAA archive collection of Elaine Schwinge–

“Historical Manuscripts Collection List » O to SO Collection List »

ELAINE A. SCHWINGE. Journals; 1946-1950, 1996. .2 cu. ft.

Elaine Schwinge, M.D., served as a field physician for the Alaska Territorial Department of Health under health commissioner C. Earl Albrecht from 1946 to 1950. She served on the Mobile Health Unit, the ship M.S. Hygiene, the BCG (tuberculosis vaccine) Program, and the Alaska Native Service Hospital in Bethel. Schwinge received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan in 1948. She later worked in psychiatry for the United States Public Health Service, the National Institute for Mental Health, and the state of Pennsylvania. Elaine Schwinge lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania

The collection consists of a copy of Dr. Elaine Schwinge’s journals from her service in the Alaska Territorial Department of Health from 1946 to 1950. The journals are divided by year and include diary and journal entries, narrative reports, correspondence, articles, stories, photographs, and other selected documents. The journals also include tables of contents and time lines. Also included in the collection is an expanded version of her journals from 1996, which has typed versions of the journal entries and documents, and a corresponding CD-R computer disc. The archives also holds the papers of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht.

The collection was presented to the archives by Margery Albrecht in 1999. The expanded version of the journals was presented to the archives by Elaine Schwinge in 2005.

HMC-0484
JAS (3/2005)

http://tinyurl.com/gdr4d

Pam Says:
August 26th, 2006 at 6:43 pm

The oral history projects at the University of Alaska Fairbanks http://uaf-db.uaf.edu/Jukebox/PJWeb/pjhome.htm Project Jukebox
contain materials referring to 1918,
http://tinyurl.com/o9kly