This project includes articles and a book manuscript in preparation that examine the role of epidemic disease and ecological change as integral to northern colonialism. The book manuscript is focused on the the Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers and their tributaries between 1860 and 1940. Other articles arising from this work address the subject more broadly with particular attention to polio, tuberculosis, and cancer.

Publications from this project include:

Piper, L. “Diphtheria Antitoxin and Tales of Mercy in Northern Health Care.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d’histoire de médecin 38, no. 2 (2021), DOI: 10.3138/cbmh-491-112020.
Piper, L. “Freeze-up, Break-up, and Colonial Circulation.” Journal of Northern Studies 13, no. 2 (2019): 17-41.
Piper, L. "Domesticating Poliovirus: Laboratory Monkeys and Vaccine Production." In Landscapes of Science. Ed. T. Adcock. Toronto: NiCHE, 2019.
Piper, L. "Chesterfield Inlet, 1949 and the Ecology of Epidemic Polio,” Environmental History 20, no.4 (October 2015): 671-698. doi:10.1093/envhis/emv101.
Piper, L. “Chronic Disease in the Yukon River Basin.” In Locating Health: Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health. Ed. E. Dyck and C. Fletcher. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 129-49.
Piper, L. and J. Sandlos, “A Broken Frontier: Ecological Imperialism in the Canadian North.” Environmental History 12, no.4 (October 2007): 759-95.

Pandemic Relations