Mary Ellen Macdonald

Datos Biográficos

ID3581272
NOMBREMary Ellen Macdonald
NOMBRESMary Ellen
APELLIDOMacdonald
FIRMAMACDONALD M E
AFILIACIONESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-0581-827X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS99
TOTAL DE CITAS131
TOTAL COMO AUTOR99
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1939
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • Exploring ethical, social, and political dimensions in the lives of children with medical complexity through Charles Taylor’s hermeneutical framework

    Open AccessRaíssa Passos dos Santos, Mary Ellen Macdonald et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2026

    This study explores the ethical, social, and political perspectives surrounding the lives of children with medical complexity using Charles Taylor’s hermeneutical framework. Children with medical complexity are often defined by their clinical conditions, functional limitations, and the extensive healthcare services they require. This research aims to uncover the broader social imaginaries and horizons of significance that shape these children’s l…

  • Listening to Young People on Childhood Death

    Open AccessSydney Campbell, Nika Rovensky et al.ARTICLEChildren & Society2026

    Over the past three decades, children and youth (‘young people’) have been increasingly conceptualised as moral agents with rights and capacities to be meaningfully engaged in decisions affecting them. While evidence suggests that social spaces are opening to prioritise listening to these voices, gaps still exist. One such domain is young people's experiences with palliative and end‐of‐life (P‐EOL) care. Our team is conducting a national study to…

  • Collaborative autoethnography investigating neighborhood segregation and higher education experience

    Open AccessHeather M Sloane Cleary, Heather Sloane et al.ARTICLEQualitative Social Work2026

    Collaborative poetry-informed autoethnography method was utilized to better understand the experience of redlining and the impact of these policies on the experience of education at a predominantly white university. Five graduate student members of a community writing project both in social work and medicine were given five writing prompts to encourage creative writing about experiences of childhood neighborhood segregation in the States. These s…

  • School-based health promotion interventions targeting humanitarian migrant children

    Open AccessNegin Eslamiamirabadi, Peter Garber et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2025

  • Learning Through Teaching

    Open AccessNissim Maxim Frija-Gruman, Yvonne Steinert et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2025

  • Announcing a new authorship policy at CJPH

    Open AccessMary Ellen Macdonald, Jayna Ling Lunny et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2025Referencias: 9

  • Eeyou/Eenou community voices on ‘ doing’ Miyupimaatisiiun (wellness) planning

    Open AccessMartine Lévesque, Alison Kutcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Occupational Science2024Referencias: 12

    This article is the second of 'twin' papers centering community participation in Miyupimaatisiuun (wellness) planning within the Eeyou Istchee (Northern Québec James Bay Cree) context. We present and discuss the results of a community-based study that took place over the course of 4 years (2016-2020). Data were collected through 13 visits to four communities, 22 individual conversation-based interviews with local members of Miyupimaatisiiun (well…

  • Grief is a public health issue

    Open AccessMary Ellen MacdonaldARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2024Referencias: 8

  • Indigenous pedagogy on childhood

    Open AccessCarly Heck, Satya Cobos et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Many Indigenous communities view children as sacred gifts deserving of love and respect, and as the ones who will carry their collective ways of life forward. However, Indigenous young people within Canada face disproportionate challenges to their health and well-being, partly a result of ongoing colonial practices within professional services. In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action regarding improvements to prof…

  • Introducing SAMMSA, a Five-Step Method for Producing ‘Quality’ Qualitative Analysis

    Open AccessMary Ellen Macdonald, Vanina Pinter et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2023

    Qualitative health research is ever growing in sophistication and complexity. While much has been written about many components (e.g. sampling and methods) of qualitative design, qualitative analysis remains an area still needing advanced reflection. Qualitative analysis often is the most daunting and intimidating component of the qualitative research endeavor for both teachers and learners alike. Working collaboratively with research trainees, o…

  • Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors

    Open AccessKevin Liu, Sophia Siedlikowski et al.ARTICLEChildren & Society2023

    Assisted dying legislation is available to support adult deaths in multiple international jurisdictions. In Canada, a parliamentary committee has recommended extending Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) legislation to include ‘competent mature minors’. Even though such a policy change would affect young people, to date formal discussions about MAID for minors have excluded them. No empirical studies have elicited youth perspectives on including t…

  • Research, policy making, and practice with young people

    Open AccessMary Ellen Macdonald, Ariane Bertrand et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

  • No time to grieve

    Open AccessShawn Renee Hordyk, Mary Ellen Macdonald et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatric…2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 32

    This article presents an overview of past and current grief rituals and practices and existing grassroots and institutional initiatives seeking to address the complex, prolonged, and traumatic grief experienced by many Inuit living in Quebec. While conducting a study seeking to identify the strengths, resources, and challenges for Nunavik's Inuit communities related to end-of-life care, results emerged concerning how family caregivers' grief rela…

  • Engaging Retired Physicians as Educators

    Laurie H Plotnick, Robert Sternszus et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    PURPOSE: Physician retirement has important impacts on medical learners as well as retiring physicians themselves. Retiring physicians take with them a wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and expertise and can feel a loss of identity, lack of fulfillment, and reduced social connectedness after leaving the institution. To address this, a novel educational program providing retired physicians with renewed educational roles was implemented in 2018 within a…

  • Perceptions of Inuit Women and Non-Inuit Healthcare Providers on the Implementation of Human Papillomavirus Self-Sampling as an Alternative Cervical Cancer Screening Method in Nunavik, Northern Quebec

    Open AccessChristina Santella, Elyse Tratt et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2022

    Human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling offers a cervical cancer (CC) screening alternative that can address certain barriers to the Papanicolaou test. As part of a larger community-based participatory project in Nunavik, Northern Québec, we travelled to two communities to gather perspectives from Inuit women and healthcare professionals (HCPs) on CC screening services and the possible implementation of HPV self-sampling. We held 10 group discus…

  • Exploring the moral experiences of Anishinaabeg children in Rapid Lake, Quebec

    Open AccessSuzanne George, Franco A Carnevale et al.ARTICLEChildren & Society2022

    This study was developed to guard against the imposition of settler‐based colonial ethnocentric conceptions of moral development by exploring the everyday moral experiences of children in an Anishinaabeg community. A focused ethnography of 33 children over 3.5 months was conducted, which included participant observation, group activities and individual and group interviews. Drawing on their unique cultural and social background, children showed t…

  • Occupational transaction in support of miyupimaatisiiun (wellness)

    Martine Lévesque, Alison Kutcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Occupational Science2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 9

    This paper presents the results of a community-based study on participation in miyupimaatisiiun (wellness) planning, conducted in partnership with the Eeyou Istchee Cree Nation (Northern Québec, Canada). Nested within a broader developmental and participatory evaluation undertaken by the regional Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, the study aimed to generate an in-depth understanding of community perspectives on their particip…

  • Odeminiwin

    Rebecca Marian Thorne, Mary Ellen Macdonald et al.ARTICLEFirst Peoples Child & Family…2021

    Legacies of colonialism have been associated with risk factors for delayed childhood development in Aboriginal communities in Canada. In the Algonquin community of Rapid Lake (Québec, Canada), the maternal-child nurse carries out regular screening for developmental delay in children (0-66 months) using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ). The aim of this project was to explore parenting practices and cultural traditions regarding childhood st…

  • Advancing Our Understanding of Dental Care Pathways of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Canada

    Open AccessNazik Nurelhuda, Mark Keboa et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The burden of oral diseases and need for dental care are high among refugees and asylum seekers (humanitarian migrants). Canada's Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) provides humanitarian migrants with limited dental services; however, this program has seen several fluctuations over the past decade. An earlier study on the experiences of humanitarian migrants in Quebec, Canada, developed the dental care pathways of humanitarian migrants model, …

  • Childhood Ethics

    Open AccessFranco A Carnevale, Delphine Collin‐vézina et al.ARTICLEChildren & Society2021

    We describe an ontological approach to childhood studies that we refer to as Childhood Ethics . This involves an interdisciplinary hermeneutic orientation towards examining the morally meaningful dimensions of matters that affect young people. We draw on our empirical research with young people from 3‐ to 17‐years old, examining their experiences in a diversity of contexts and geographical settings. Our investigations challenge dominant binary co…

  • Reflection and soul searching

    Open AccessDavid Wright, Lisa S Chan et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Citada por: 2Referencias: 19

  • Clinical Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Role in Professional Identity Formation

    Robert Sternszus, J Donald Boudreau et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    PURPOSE: A fundamental goal of medical education is supporting learners in forming a professional identity. While it is known that learners perceive clinical teachers to be critically important in this process, the latter's perspective is unknown. This study sought to understand how clinical teachers perceive their influence on the professional identity formation of learners. METHOD: In 2017, a research assistant conducted 16 semistructured inter…

  • Considering medical assistance in dying for minors

    Harprit Singh, Harprit Kaur Singh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2020

    Medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation in Canada followed much deliberation after the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling in Carter v. Canada . Included in this deliberation was the Special Joint Committee on Physician Assisted Dying’s recommendation to extend MAID legislation beyond the inclusion of adults to mature minors. Children's agency is a construct advanced within childhood studies literature which entails eliciting children’s voice…

  • The Concept of Vulnerability in Mental Health Research

    Open AccessCORINNE LAJOIE, J Poleksić et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2020Citada por: 3

    The concept of vulnerability plays a central role in research ethics in signaling that certain research participants warrant more careful consideration because their risk of harm is heightened due to their participation in research. Despite scholarly debates, the descriptive and normative meanings ascribed to the concept have remained disengaged from the perspective of users of the concept and those concerned by its use. In this study, we report …

  • Memorial tattoos

    Susan Cadell, Melissa Reid Lambert et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies2020Citada por: 7Referencias: 4

    A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos …