Puvaluqatatiluta, When We Had Tuberculosis: St. Luke's Mission Hospital and the Inuit of the Cumberland Sound Region, 1930–1972

• Main Author: Cowall, Emily S.
• Other Authors: D. Ann Herring, PhD, T. Kue Young, MD, PhD, Trudy Nicks, PhD, Anthropology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Tuberculosis; Cumberland Sound; Eastern Arctic; Anglican Church of Canada; Mountain Sanatorium; Other Anthropology; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Pangnirtung; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11632

This thesis explores the ethnohistory of Church- and State-mediated tuberculosis treatment for Inuit of the Cumberland Sound region from 1930 to 1972. Pangnirtung’s St. Luke’s Mission Hospital sits at the centre of this discussion and at the nexus of archival evidence and regional Inuit knowledge ab...