Marilou Gagnon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3653786 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marilou Gagnon |
| NOMBRES | Marilou |
| APELLIDO | Gagnon |
| FIRMA | GAGNON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4214-3088 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Emergency department violence involving patients who use unregulated substances
This paper examines emergency department staff perspectives of patient violence in the context of care provision for people who use unregulated substances. Study findings demonstrate that disconnects between what patients need and what staff can offer create conditions that contribute to staff-patient conflict and violence - disconnects situated within constrains produced by system structures. In navigating the potential for conflict, care choice…
Becoming a Medical Cannabis User” Revisited
The work of sociologist Howard Becker has been used extensively to study and theorize the experience of using cannabis for recreational purposes and more recently, the experience of using cannabis for medical purposes. Building on recent research that uses Becker's work to study and theorize the process of becoming a medical cannabis use r , we extracted and analyzed interview data from a larger qualitative case study of low-threshold access poin…
Provincial and territorial results and recommendations from the Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation project
La divulgation en santé comme technique de soi
En santé, les alertes éthiques visent à signaler des risques possibles ou des situations avérées minant la sécurité ou les droits des patients et du personnel, permettant ainsi aux établissements de prévenir ou corriger des situations contraires à leur mandat. Pour les lanceurs d’alerte toutefois, elles prennent un sens plus profond. En nous basant sur des récits de divulgateurs infirmiers recueillis dans le cadre d’une étude qualitative, nous su…
None of It Turned Out the Way She Wanted, So It Left a Hole in Me
Palliative care is undergoing shifts to identify and respond to social and structural inequities. Caregiving in a palliative context is steeped in assumptions that those who provide care are biologically or legally (biolegal) related, well‐resourced, and able to balance the many demands of work and life with caregiving. As families in the Western world change, people are increasingly looking outside their biolegal families for care. This is commo…
Using drugs alone in single room occupancy housing
Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
Examining the Influence of Pre-Haart Experiences on Older, Self-Identifying Gay Men's Contemporary Constructions of Quality of Life (QOL)
Some older gay men (50+) experience diminished quality of life (QOL) due to historical and ongoing discrimination in addition to living through a collective trauma-the pre-HAART era of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-characterized by the absence of treatment and rampant discrimination targeting gay men. A growing body of literature, however, illustrates that older gay men demonstrate remarkable resilience but little is known about how QOL is conceptualized…
“Food engages people, as we know”
Food insecurity is widely documented among people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide, and it presents significant challenges across the spectrum of HIV care and support. In North America, the prevalence of food insecurity among PLWH exceeds 50%. In the province of British Columbia (BC), it exceeds 65%. It comes as no surprise that food has become an essential tool in supporting and engaging with PLWH. Over the past decade, however, a shift has take…
Spotting as a risk mitigation method
The Box Has Become an Indispensable Part of My Life”
Community-based models of cannabis cultivation, distribution, and consumption—such as cannabis clubs—have been documented across Europe, North America, South America, and New Zealand since the 1990s. For the most part, these models have a history of operating outside existing legislation and regulations. Jurisdictions that have legalized cannabis have approached community-based models in opposite ways (eliminate vs. regulate). Canada legalizing c…
Addressing overdose risks and fatalities in public bathrooms
Flawed reports can harm
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
With a Picc line, you never miss”
Our analysis has implications for theorizing the role of PICC lines in the care of PWUD and identifies practical guidance for engaging them in productive and non-judgemental discussions about the risks of injecting into a PICC line, how to do it safely, and about medically supported alternatives
Help-Seeking to Cope With Experiences of Violence Among Women Living With HIV in Canada
Using baseline data from a community-collaborative cohort of women living with HIV in Canada, we assessed the prevalence and correlates of help-seeking among 1,057 women who reported experiencing violence in adulthood (≥16 years). After violence, 447 (42%) sought help, while 610 (58%) did not. Frequently accessed supports included health care providers ( n = 313, 70%), family/friends ( n = 244, 55%), and non-HIV community organizations ( n = 235,…
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and Covid-19
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and COVID-19 Colin Hastings PhD, Alexander McClelland PhD, Adrian Guta PhD, MSW, Maureen Owino MES, Eli Manning PhD, MSW, Michael Orsini PhD, Richard Elliott LLM, Marilou Gagnon PhD, RN, and Stephen Molldrem PhD Affiliation Colin Hastings is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Alexander McClelland is with the Institute of…
Involuntary stabilization care of youth who overdose
What Can we Learn from the English-Language Media Coverage of Cannabis Legalization in Canada
Background: In October 2018, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize cannabis. However, at this stage in the implementation process, it can be challenging to get a sense of the outcomes of this policy shift – hence why we turned to media. Purpose/objectives: We present the results of a qualitative content analysis conducted on the media coverage between October 2018 and April 2019. Methods: We used Google News and ProQuest datab…
Substance Use Education in Canadian Nursing Programs
BACKGROUND: In Canada, nursing programs have not kept pace with the growing rates and changing patterns of substance use. METHOD: To get a sense of the current state of substance use education in nursing programs, we conducted a survey of nursing students. RESULTS: Our findings indicate that (a) substance use education is minimal, 1 to 5 hours (43%) or none (20%); (b) students had more working knowledge of legal and prescribed substances than ill…
Corporate contact tracing as a pandemic response
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a steady stream of propositions from tech giants and start-ups alike has furnished us with the idea that GPS- or Bluetooth-enabled contact tracing apps are a vital part of the pandemic response. This commentary considers these apps as ‘corporate contact tracing’, emphasizing the private-sector role that such developments imply. We first discuss corporate contact tracing’s potential to de-center the power …
The rise of molecular HIV surveillance
Public health experts in the US and Canada are increasingly mobilizing molecular-based surveillance techniques in seeking to identify and control HIV. Both countries are also leading in the world to criminalize HIV exposure, transmission and non-disclosure, as well as having pervasive ongoing criminalization regimes toward drug use, sex work and migration. Molecular surveillance aims to rapidly identify ‘risk network’ clusters of people normally …
Cannabis legalization in Canada
The HIV self-testing debate
“There is a chain of connections”
Side effects are central to the experience of living longer with HIV but rarely have they been studied alone. Unlike other aspects of that experience, like quality of life, treatment adherence, chronicity, episodic disability, aging, health, and viral load suppression, side effects have not benefited from the same level of empirical and theoretical engagement from qualitative researchers. In this paper, we draw on syndemics theory and 50 qualitat…
HIV, Viral Suppression and New Technologies of Surveillance and Control
The global response to managing the spread of HIV has recently undergone a significant shift with the advent of 'treatment as prevention', a strategy which presumes that scaling-up testing and treatment for people living with HIV will produce a broader preventative benefit. Treatment as prevention includes an array of diagnostic, technological and policy developments that are creating new understandings of how HIV circulates in bodies and spaces.…
Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
The Box Has Become an Indispensable Part of My Life”
Community-based models of cannabis cultivation, distribution, and consumption—such as cannabis clubs—have been documented across Europe, North America, South America, and New Zealand since the 1990s. For the most part, these models have a history of operating outside existing legislation and regulations. Jurisdictions that have legalized cannabis have approached community-based models in opposite ways (eliminate vs. regulate). Canada legalizing c…
Flawed reports can harm
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
Examining the Influence of Pre-Haart Experiences on Older, Self-Identifying Gay Men's Contemporary Constructions of Quality of Life (QOL)
Some older gay men (50+) experience diminished quality of life (QOL) due to historical and ongoing discrimination in addition to living through a collective trauma-the pre-HAART era of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-characterized by the absence of treatment and rampant discrimination targeting gay men. A growing body of literature, however, illustrates that older gay men demonstrate remarkable resilience but little is known about how QOL is conceptualized…
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and Covid-19
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and COVID-19 Colin Hastings PhD, Alexander McClelland PhD, Adrian Guta PhD, MSW, Maureen Owino MES, Eli Manning PhD, MSW, Michael Orsini PhD, Richard Elliott LLM, Marilou Gagnon PhD, RN, and Stephen Molldrem PhD Affiliation Colin Hastings is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Alexander McClelland is with the Institute of…
Sovereign power, spectacle and punishment
The purpose of this paper is to engage with the reader in a theoretical reflection regarding the use of the seclusion room as a punitive nursing intervention (behaviour modification technique for instance). To set the stage, we explore the internal structure and functioning (culture) of the psychiatric institution – as total institution – from a Goffmanian perspective. Then, drawing on the work of the late French philosopher Michel Foucault, we i…
Sovereign power, spectacle and punishment
The purpose of this paper is to engage with the reader in a theoretical reflection regarding the use of the seclusion room as a punitive nursing intervention (behaviour modification technique for instance). To set the stage, we explore the internal structure and functioning (culture) of the psychiatric institution – as total institution – from a Goffmanian perspective. Then, drawing on the work of the late French philosopher Michel Foucault, we i…
Governing through (in)security
Fear appeals are once again popular in public health campaigns aimed at preventing unhealthy behaviors and dangerous life practices such as smoking, unsafe sexual practices, drug use, alcohol abuse, impaired driving, etc. Every year in the province of Quebec (Canada), a new prevention campaign for sexually transmitted infections is launched by the SLITSS (Service de lutte contre les infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang). In 2006–…
Mapping HIV community viral load
HIV plasma viral load testing has become more than just a clinical tool to monitor treatment response at the individual level. Increasingly, individual HIV plasma viral load testing is being reported to public health agencies and is used to inform epidemiological surveillance and monitor the presence of the virus collectively using techniques to measure 'community viral load'. This article seeks to formulate a critique and propose a novel way of …
HIV, Viral Suppression and New Technologies of Surveillance and Control
The global response to managing the spread of HIV has recently undergone a significant shift with the advent of 'treatment as prevention', a strategy which presumes that scaling-up testing and treatment for people living with HIV will produce a broader preventative benefit. Treatment as prevention includes an array of diagnostic, technological and policy developments that are creating new understandings of how HIV circulates in bodies and spaces.…
Envisioning Women-Centered HIV Care
The HIV self-testing debate
“There is a chain of connections”
Side effects are central to the experience of living longer with HIV but rarely have they been studied alone. Unlike other aspects of that experience, like quality of life, treatment adherence, chronicity, episodic disability, aging, health, and viral load suppression, side effects have not benefited from the same level of empirical and theoretical engagement from qualitative researchers. In this paper, we draw on syndemics theory and 50 qualitat…
Teaching HIV-specific content for pre-licensure nursing and health professions students
Persistent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rates remain a challenge, particularly because health care providers (HCP) are not fully prepared to engage in HIV care. This hesitancy to engage creates access to care barriers for people living with HIV (PLWH). We conducted a systematic review to identify educational interventions focused on developing HIV competencies in higher education across health science disciplines. We searched dat…
The rise of molecular HIV surveillance
Public health experts in the US and Canada are increasingly mobilizing molecular-based surveillance techniques in seeking to identify and control HIV. Both countries are also leading in the world to criminalize HIV exposure, transmission and non-disclosure, as well as having pervasive ongoing criminalization regimes toward drug use, sex work and migration. Molecular surveillance aims to rapidly identify ‘risk network’ clusters of people normally …
Cannabis legalization in Canada
What Can we Learn from the English-Language Media Coverage of Cannabis Legalization in Canada
Background: In October 2018, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize cannabis. However, at this stage in the implementation process, it can be challenging to get a sense of the outcomes of this policy shift – hence why we turned to media. Purpose/objectives: We present the results of a qualitative content analysis conducted on the media coverage between October 2018 and April 2019. Methods: We used Google News and ProQuest datab…
Substance Use Education in Canadian Nursing Programs
BACKGROUND: In Canada, nursing programs have not kept pace with the growing rates and changing patterns of substance use. METHOD: To get a sense of the current state of substance use education in nursing programs, we conducted a survey of nursing students. RESULTS: Our findings indicate that (a) substance use education is minimal, 1 to 5 hours (43%) or none (20%); (b) students had more working knowledge of legal and prescribed substances than ill…
Corporate contact tracing as a pandemic response
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a steady stream of propositions from tech giants and start-ups alike has furnished us with the idea that GPS- or Bluetooth-enabled contact tracing apps are a vital part of the pandemic response. This commentary considers these apps as ‘corporate contact tracing’, emphasizing the private-sector role that such developments imply. We first discuss corporate contact tracing’s potential to de-center the power …
With a Picc line, you never miss”
Our analysis has implications for theorizing the role of PICC lines in the care of PWUD and identifies practical guidance for engaging them in productive and non-judgemental discussions about the risks of injecting into a PICC line, how to do it safely, and about medically supported alternatives
Help-Seeking to Cope With Experiences of Violence Among Women Living With HIV in Canada
Using baseline data from a community-collaborative cohort of women living with HIV in Canada, we assessed the prevalence and correlates of help-seeking among 1,057 women who reported experiencing violence in adulthood (≥16 years). After violence, 447 (42%) sought help, while 610 (58%) did not. Frequently accessed supports included health care providers ( n = 313, 70%), family/friends ( n = 244, 55%), and non-HIV community organizations ( n = 235,…
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and Covid-19
Intersections of Treatment, Surveillance, and Criminal Law Responses to HIV and COVID-19 Colin Hastings PhD, Alexander McClelland PhD, Adrian Guta PhD, MSW, Maureen Owino MES, Eli Manning PhD, MSW, Michael Orsini PhD, Richard Elliott LLM, Marilou Gagnon PhD, RN, and Stephen Molldrem PhD Affiliation Colin Hastings is with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Alexander McClelland is with the Institute of…
Involuntary stabilization care of youth who overdose
“Food engages people, as we know”
Food insecurity is widely documented among people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide, and it presents significant challenges across the spectrum of HIV care and support. In North America, the prevalence of food insecurity among PLWH exceeds 50%. In the province of British Columbia (BC), it exceeds 65%. It comes as no surprise that food has become an essential tool in supporting and engaging with PLWH. Over the past decade, however, a shift has take…
Spotting as a risk mitigation method
The Box Has Become an Indispensable Part of My Life”
Community-based models of cannabis cultivation, distribution, and consumption—such as cannabis clubs—have been documented across Europe, North America, South America, and New Zealand since the 1990s. For the most part, these models have a history of operating outside existing legislation and regulations. Jurisdictions that have legalized cannabis have approached community-based models in opposite ways (eliminate vs. regulate). Canada legalizing c…
Addressing overdose risks and fatalities in public bathrooms
Flawed reports can harm
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
Using drugs alone in single room occupancy housing
Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed
An assessment of federal alcohol policies in Canada and priority recommendations
Many evidence-informed alcohol policies have not been adopted, or been adopted only partially, by the Canadian federal government. Urgent adoption of the recommended policies is needed to prevent and reduce the enormous health, social, and economic costs of alcohol use in Canada
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