Rendering Inuit cancer “visible”: Geography, pathology, and nosology in Arctic cancer research
Argument In August of 1977, Australian pathologist David W. Buntine delivered a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia in Melbourne, Victoria. In this presentation, he used the diagnostic category of “Eskimoma,” to describe a unique set of salivary gland...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0269889721000016 2024-05-12T08:00:07+00:00 Rendering Inuit cancer “visible”: Geography, pathology, and nosology in Arctic cancer research Fraser, Jennifer 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889721000016 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0269889721000016 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Science in Context volume 33, issue 3, page 195-225 ISSN 0269-8897 1474-0664 History and Philosophy of Science General Social Sciences journal-article 2020 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889721000016 2024-04-18T06:53:56Z Argument In August of 1977, Australian pathologist David W. Buntine delivered a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia in Melbourne, Victoria. In this presentation, he used the diagnostic category of “Eskimoma,” to describe a unique set of salivary gland tumors he had observed over the past five years within Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Center. Only found amongst Inuit patients, these tumors were said to have unique histological, clinical, and epidemiological features and were unlike any other disease category that had ever been encountered before. To understand where this nosological category came from, and its long-term impact, this paper traces the historical trajectory of the “Eskimoma.” In addition to discussing the methods and infrastructures that were essential to making the idea of Inuit cancer “visible,” to the pathologist, the epidemiologist, and to society at large, this paper discusses how Inuit tissue samples obtained, stored, and analyzed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, came to be codified into a new, racially based disease category – one that has guided Canadian and international understandings of circumpolar cancer trends and shaped northern healthcare service delivery for the past sixty years. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic eskimo* inuit Cambridge University Press Arctic Science in Context 33 3 195 225 |
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Argument In August of 1977, Australian pathologist David W. Buntine delivered a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia in Melbourne, Victoria. In this presentation, he used the diagnostic category of “Eskimoma,” to describe a unique set of salivary gland tumors he had observed over the past five years within Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Center. Only found amongst Inuit patients, these tumors were said to have unique histological, clinical, and epidemiological features and were unlike any other disease category that had ever been encountered before. To understand where this nosological category came from, and its long-term impact, this paper traces the historical trajectory of the “Eskimoma.” In addition to discussing the methods and infrastructures that were essential to making the idea of Inuit cancer “visible,” to the pathologist, the epidemiologist, and to society at large, this paper discusses how Inuit tissue samples obtained, stored, and analyzed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, came to be codified into a new, racially based disease category – one that has guided Canadian and international understandings of circumpolar cancer trends and shaped northern healthcare service delivery for the past sixty years. |
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Rendering Inuit cancer “visible”: Geography, pathology, and nosology in Arctic cancer research |
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