LEAD:
When the Canadian government forced the Inuit to stop living off the land and move into villages and towns in the north it severely distrupted their culture. That also allowed tuberculosis to further ravage the population. Kevin Patterson knows that sad story all too well. When he isn't writing in the south, he is a doctor practicing in remote communites in the north. Consumption is the story of one family dealing with the clash between tradition and the modern age.

RUNS:  4:52

END CUE:  "...published by Random House of Canada."