Sessional Instructor, Health, Aging & Society
Thesis Title: PUVALUQATATILUTA, WHEN WE HAD TUBERCULOSIS: ST. LUKE'S MISSION HOSPITAL AND THE INUIT OF THE CUMBERLAND SOUND REGION, 1930–1972
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D. Ann Herring
T. Kue Young Trudy Nicks Pauline Mazumdar, Professor Emeritis |
About
My academic work is in the Canadian Eastern Arctic on Baffin Island, especially in the community of Pangnirtung.
My PhD is focused on the ethnographic and historic accounting of tuberculosis amongst the Inuit who lived in the Cumberland Sound between approximately 1930-1972. The Inuit of this region constitute the present day community of Pangnirtung.
I conducted an interesting community based research project naming photographs of the community members who went to the Mountain Sanatorium in Hamilton Ontario between 1950-1960. This project concluded in March 2009. Participation in the process and the return of personal photographs as the outcome provided the community and its members with a sense of healing and reconciliation.
My PhD dissertation triangulates ethno-historical archival records of the Anglican Mission Hospital, Canadian Federal Government Medical Patrol and local knowledge to result in a focused study of the affect of tuberculosis on the Inuit of Pangnirtung.
