Arctic doctor

• Main Author: Moody, Joseph P.
• Other Authors: Embden, W. de Groot van (Willem de Groot)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Dodd, Mead 1955
• Subjects: Moody; Joseph P; Physicians > Biography; Labrador (N.L.) > Description and travel; Arctic; eskimo*; Igloolik; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/110418

Arctic Doctor Two thousand patients! -- Rolling north -- On into the ice age -- Diagnosis by radio -- The not-very-bright trapper -- Breath of winter -- Sheeniktook -- The grip of night -- Warmth beneath the snow -- Eskimo close-up -- Turning point -- Neophyte patrol -- Sheeniktook redeems himself -- "Fogbound" -- Dancing airplane -- "Mercy flight" -- Four feet from eternity -- Arctic fever -- Odyssey of death -- Running an epidemic -- Strong measures -- The reckoning -- "Pokatelli him say three!" -- Threats and misunderstandings -- Throb of a drum -- His Majesty, Tuctu -- River of fur -- Tough problem, tough solution -- Sheeniktook instructs the brass -- The rough road to learning -- Notebook ammunition -- Magistrate's diary -- Eskimo "criminology" -- Outpost patrol -- Father Henry's flock -- Igloolik: "Place of the little houses" -- Calculated risk -- Escape -- Camera hunt -- Private life of a seal -- Quiet interlude -- Into the ice fields -- Night with no end -- Miracle? -- Appendix: doctor's precription