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September 2002, Vol 92, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1420
© 2002 American Public Health Association

IMAGES OF HEALTH

Public Health Service Dentist Examines an Alaska Native Child, 1951

Elizabeth Fee, Theodore M. Brown, Jan Lazarus and Paul Theerman

Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 

Source. Prints and Photographs Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.

SINCE THE EARLY 19TH century, the federal government has provided health care to Native Americans, both as a treaty obligation and in its role as trustee for indigenous peoples.1 The government, however, has not always been zealous in pursuing its obligations. In Alaska, for example, not until 1931 did a single Public Health Service (PHS) officer provide health care, and then only for a few years. Alaska did take on special significance during the Cold War, when the Inuit people were characterized as "the first line . . . [Full Text]






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