Louise Chartrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 216625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Chartrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Chartrand |
| SIGNATURE | CHARTRAND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9391-1270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating Life’s End
Terminal extubation, the planned withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from patients who will not recover, presents significant technical, ethical, and emotional challenges for respiratory therapists (RTs), yet their perspectives remain underexamined. Using Max Weber’s concept of ideal types, this interpretive description study explored how RTs understand and enact their role at life’s end. Twenty-nine RTs (20 in Canada and 9 in the United States)…
Spiro
Background: The purpose of SPIRO is to increase access to and use of spirometry (the gold standard to diagnose and manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), with a specific focus on improving the health outcomes of people in remote, rural, and First Nations communities. Approach: We utilize an integrated, equity-focused, learning health system (LHS) approach to provide spirometry and associated respiratory care services to remote, rural, and…
When Urgency Drops
In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes consciousness at the threshold of death. I follow Suzanne, a patient whose cardiac arrhythmia brought her ca…
Negotiating End-of-Life Decisions
When someone is very ill in Canada, the individual is taken under charge of the medical system and put on one of two distinct paths for handling the situation: either acute or palliative care. In the acute path, all available medical technology is deployed to save lives and avoid death, while the main objective of the palliative path is comfort, as death becomes inevitable and expected. The two paths are ordinarily seen as part of a linear proces…
A week in the life of Margarite
What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control
Does self-control require willpower? The question cuts to the heart of a debate about whether self-control is identical with some psychological process internal to the agents or not. Noticeably absent from these debates is systematic evidence about the folk-psychological category of self-control. Here, we present the results of two behavioral studies ( N = 296) that indicate the structure of everyday use of the concept. In Study 1, participants r…
L'Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées au Canada
Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016-2019). Its mandate: to identify the systemic causes of violence and produce effective recommendations to remedy them. From its ann…
Entertainment-Education
In this article, we examine primetime television as a source of entertainment-education on death. Using directed (deductive) and conventional (inductive) approaches to content analysis, we describe how death and dying are being depicted on two primetime medical television series, Grey's Anatomy and Saving Hope. We then discuss what kinds of information viewers may be taking from these series. Our deductive content analysis suggests that much of t…
Modeling and corpus methods in experimental philosophy
Research in experimental philosophy has increasingly been turning to corpus methods to produce evidence for empirical claims, as they open up new possibilities for testing linguistic claims or studying concepts across time and culture. The present article reviews the quasi-experimental studies that have been done using textual data from corpora in philosophy, with an eye for the modeling and experimental design that enable statistical inference. …
Theoretically Informed Hospital Ethnography
Disciplines anchor themselves using a particular kind of epistemology and ontology to produced it's knowledge. In healthcare, quantitative research has been dominant were in social sciences, qualitative research was. However, in the last two decades, we have seen a mixing (better said in French with the word métissage) of strategies within those two disciplines. Despite the newfound acceptance of qualitative research within the healthcare field, …
Dying on television versus dying in intensive care units following withdrawal of life support
While treatment is often withdrawn from patients in intensive care units (ICUs), few people outside the healthcare profession have witnessed a death under such circumstances. Family members who have made the decision to withdraw treatment may have expectations about the dying process, what constitutes a good death and how they should behave in an ICU based on popular prime-time television series. An inductive comparative thematic coding strategy …
A data-driven computational semiotics
The rise of big digital data is changing the framework within which linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other researchers are working. Semiotics is not spared by this paradigm shift. A data-driven computational semiotics is the study with an intensive use of computational methods of patterns in human-created contents related to semiotic phenomena. One of the most promising frameworks in this research program is the Semantic Vector Space…
Individualism and the Decision to Withdraw Life Support
The 1996 Health Care Consent Act of Ontario (Canada) is a law that regulates medical decision making. Therefore, it also gives indications on how end of life decisions should be made. The goal of the law was to ensure and protect patient’s autonomy and avoid medical paternalism, especially at the end of life. Throughout this article, I would like to argue that one of the consequences of the 1996 Health Care Consent Act of Ontario is to promote in…
Ingold Tim, 2013, Making
Ingold Tim, 2013, Making : Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. Londres, Routledge, 162 p., illustr., bibliogr., index. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Phénoménologies en anthropologie) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Modeling and corpus methods in experimental philosophy
Research in experimental philosophy has increasingly been turning to corpus methods to produce evidence for empirical claims, as they open up new possibilities for testing linguistic claims or studying concepts across time and culture. The present article reviews the quasi-experimental studies that have been done using textual data from corpora in philosophy, with an eye for the modeling and experimental design that enable statistical inference. …
Theoretically Informed Hospital Ethnography
Disciplines anchor themselves using a particular kind of epistemology and ontology to produced it's knowledge. In healthcare, quantitative research has been dominant were in social sciences, qualitative research was. However, in the last two decades, we have seen a mixing (better said in French with the word métissage) of strategies within those two disciplines. Despite the newfound acceptance of qualitative research within the healthcare field, …
A data-driven computational semiotics
The rise of big digital data is changing the framework within which linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other researchers are working. Semiotics is not spared by this paradigm shift. A data-driven computational semiotics is the study with an intensive use of computational methods of patterns in human-created contents related to semiotic phenomena. One of the most promising frameworks in this research program is the Semantic Vector Space…
Ingold Tim, 2013, Making
Ingold Tim, 2013, Making : Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. Londres, Routledge, 162 p., illustr., bibliogr., index. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Phénoménologies en anthropologie) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Individualism and the Decision to Withdraw Life Support
The 1996 Health Care Consent Act of Ontario (Canada) is a law that regulates medical decision making. Therefore, it also gives indications on how end of life decisions should be made. The goal of the law was to ensure and protect patient’s autonomy and avoid medical paternalism, especially at the end of life. Throughout this article, I would like to argue that one of the consequences of the 1996 Health Care Consent Act of Ontario is to promote in…
A data-driven computational semiotics
The rise of big digital data is changing the framework within which linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other researchers are working. Semiotics is not spared by this paradigm shift. A data-driven computational semiotics is the study with an intensive use of computational methods of patterns in human-created contents related to semiotic phenomena. One of the most promising frameworks in this research program is the Semantic Vector Space…
Dying on television versus dying in intensive care units following withdrawal of life support
While treatment is often withdrawn from patients in intensive care units (ICUs), few people outside the healthcare profession have witnessed a death under such circumstances. Family members who have made the decision to withdraw treatment may have expectations about the dying process, what constitutes a good death and how they should behave in an ICU based on popular prime-time television series. An inductive comparative thematic coding strategy …
Entertainment-Education
In this article, we examine primetime television as a source of entertainment-education on death. Using directed (deductive) and conventional (inductive) approaches to content analysis, we describe how death and dying are being depicted on two primetime medical television series, Grey's Anatomy and Saving Hope. We then discuss what kinds of information viewers may be taking from these series. Our deductive content analysis suggests that much of t…
Modeling and corpus methods in experimental philosophy
Research in experimental philosophy has increasingly been turning to corpus methods to produce evidence for empirical claims, as they open up new possibilities for testing linguistic claims or studying concepts across time and culture. The present article reviews the quasi-experimental studies that have been done using textual data from corpora in philosophy, with an eye for the modeling and experimental design that enable statistical inference. …
Theoretically Informed Hospital Ethnography
Disciplines anchor themselves using a particular kind of epistemology and ontology to produced it's knowledge. In healthcare, quantitative research has been dominant were in social sciences, qualitative research was. However, in the last two decades, we have seen a mixing (better said in French with the word métissage) of strategies within those two disciplines. Despite the newfound acceptance of qualitative research within the healthcare field, …
What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control
Does self-control require willpower? The question cuts to the heart of a debate about whether self-control is identical with some psychological process internal to the agents or not. Noticeably absent from these debates is systematic evidence about the folk-psychological category of self-control. Here, we present the results of two behavioral studies ( N = 296) that indicate the structure of everyday use of the concept. In Study 1, participants r…
L'Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées au Canada
Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016-2019). Its mandate: to identify the systemic causes of violence and produce effective recommendations to remedy them. From its ann…
Negotiating End-of-Life Decisions
When someone is very ill in Canada, the individual is taken under charge of the medical system and put on one of two distinct paths for handling the situation: either acute or palliative care. In the acute path, all available medical technology is deployed to save lives and avoid death, while the main objective of the palliative path is comfort, as death becomes inevitable and expected. The two paths are ordinarily seen as part of a linear proces…
A week in the life of Margarite
Navigating Life’s End
Terminal extubation, the planned withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from patients who will not recover, presents significant technical, ethical, and emotional challenges for respiratory therapists (RTs), yet their perspectives remain underexamined. Using Max Weber’s concept of ideal types, this interpretive description study explored how RTs understand and enact their role at life’s end. Twenty-nine RTs (20 in Canada and 9 in the United States)…
Spiro
Background: The purpose of SPIRO is to increase access to and use of spirometry (the gold standard to diagnose and manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), with a specific focus on improving the health outcomes of people in remote, rural, and First Nations communities. Approach: We utilize an integrated, equity-focused, learning health system (LHS) approach to provide spirometry and associated respiratory care services to remote, rural, and…
When Urgency Drops
In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes consciousness at the threshold of death. I follow Suzanne, a patient whose cardiac arrhythmia brought her ca…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Health care (3 works)