'The Aklavik H. pylori Project: Bacteria, cancer, and risk in the town that will never say die!' Jan. 28
by Michelle Saport |
Monday, Jan. 28, 4 p.m.
Beatrice McDonald Hall, Room 104
UAA's Anthropology Department is sponsoring a public talk by Sally Carraher, candidate
for a faculty position in cultural anthropology and current Ph.D. student at McMaster
University. The talk is titled, 'The Aklavik H. pylori Project: Bacteria, cancer,
and risk in the town that will never say die!'
About the talk:
The Aklavik H. pylori Project is a community-based study examining Helicobacter pylori
bacteria and its link to high rates of stomach cancer in Aklavik, an indigenous arctic
community in the Northwest Territories. Although transmission remains officially unconfirmed
in epidemiology, most researchers in the project believe the bacteria spreads directly
from person to person, while most residents believe the bacterium is traveling to
Aklavik in contaminated water. Carraher explores how cultural constructions of cancer,
H. pylori bacteria and risk influence health-seeking behaviors, and describes how
these practices are related to the social inequities that exacerbate H. pylori infection
in Aklavik.
"'The Aklavik H. pylori Project: Bacteria, cancer, and risk in the town that will never
say die!' Jan. 28" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
