Dave Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dave Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dave |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2867-0546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Digitally Facilitated Sex Work: A Scoping Review Articulating Men’s Labor Experiences
A multitude of factors shape the labor conditions of men engaged in digitally facilitated sex work. To examine these labor conditions, we conducted a scoping review of research conducted with men about their use of internet technologies to facilitate in-person sex work and/or provide sexual services online through digital platforms. We retrieved 72 papers and book chapters published between 1990 and 2024. We summarize some descriptive characteris…
Are Queer Men Queering Consent? A Scoping Review of Sexual Consent Literature Among Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Men
Objectives: To review the literature on Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer (GBTQ) men and sexual consent. Methods: Eight electronic databases were searched in June 2022, yielding 1924 articles; 30 were included for review after screening. Results: We found a growing body of literature focused on GBTQ men, with an increasingly intersectional lens. Most studies adopted a nuanced definition of sexual consent. Many discussed the unique sexual scripts de…
From domestication to imperial patronage: Deconstructing the biomedicalisation of occupational therapy
Occupational therapy knowledge emerged in the 19th century as reformist movements responded to the industrialisation of society and capitalist expansion. In the Global North, it was institutionalised by State apparatuses during the First and Second World Wars. Although biomedicine contributed to the rapid expansion and establishment of occupational therapy as a health discipline, its domestication by the biomedical model led to an overly regulate…
Wired Sex Assemblages Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: Sexualized Drug Use, Hookup Apps, and HIV Service Provision
Sexualized drug use is a form of sexual practice that resists risk-based discourses (otherwise referred to as "radical sex practices") and is reportedly common among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). With the growth of online technologies, the use of hookup apps has also increased. We refer to men's use of drugs, apps, and sex form as "wired sex" that forms what post-structuralist theorists Deleuze and Guattari described …
What’s in a Name? A Phenomenological Exploration of Hypersexuality Narratives
Objective We explored men’s subjective experiences of hypersexuality, including the underlying factors they believed contributed to their sexuality. Methods: We interviewed 32 Canadian men with self-reported concerns related to hypersexuality. Interviews were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and narrative analysis. Results: Participants’ (hyper)sexual experiences revealed complex histories of desire, life disruptions, and h…
Biopower under a state of exception: Stories of dying and grieving alone during Covid-19 emergency measures
During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions for visitors and caregivers in healthcare settings and long-term care (LTC) facilities were enacted in the larger context of public health policies that included physical distancing and shelter-in-place orders. Older persons residing in LTC facilities constituted over half of the mortality statistics across Canada during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the poststructuralist work of Agamben…
Assembling bodies and technologies: A poststructural ethnography of sexualized drug use among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men
The identities and communities of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are undergoing reconfiguration through two technologies: the digital spaces of social networking and hookup apps, and the sexualized use of chemicals such as recreational and illicit drugs, pharmaceuticals, and steroids. These technologies are creating spaces for GBMSM to indulge in excesses and extremes of pleasure, generating what has been described as …
Medicalized Metamorphosis: Biological Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders
Motivational pathways underlying the onset and maintenance of viewing child pornography on the Internet
The staggering rate at which incidents of child pornography (CP) are increasing highlights the need for proactive approaches to this problem. Improving the efficacy and accessibility of interventions designed for individuals who view CP provides one means of addressing this growing concern. This article explores the self‐identified motivations underlying the onset and maintenance of viewing Internet‐based CP among a sample of 20 men receiving tre…
Poststructuralisme, gouvernementalité et perspectives de genre: La prise en charge d’un proche atteint de troubles mentaux par la famille
Cet article fait état des résultats d’une recherche empirique réalisée auprès de membres de familles ayant un proche atteint de troubles mentaux sévères. Le recours à un cadre théorique poststructuraliste a été préconisé et, à cet égard, les travaux de Jacques Donzelot et de Michel Foucault ont été mobilisés. Les principaux constats issus de cette recherche qualitative indiquent que le gouvernement des familles s’effectue par l’entremise de mécan…
Active-offer PrEP for HIV prevention: Control, discipline, and public health nursing practice
Whereas public health efforts to prevent HIV transmission used to focus exclusively on HIV diagnosis and reductions in the practices that transmit HIV, they now include the provision of HIV medication to HIV-negative persons before potential contacts when transmission could occur; this is known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). To increase PrEP uptake, recent efforts have begun to include the provision of PrEP referrals by public health nurses …
Grinding against HIV discourse: A critical exploration of social sexual practices in gay cruising apps
Social networking applications (SNAs), such as Grindr, are shaping the identities and sexual practices of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM). This qualitative study aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the role of such technologies in social sexual practices, particularly in relation to risk management and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted blood-borne infections (STBBIs). Poststructuralism and queer theory w…
Gay Men’s Sexual Health Promotion in Virtual Space: Exploring Stakeholders’ Attitudes and Approaches to Outreach on Mobile Apps in Nova Scotia
Governing through lifestyle—Lalonde and the biopolitical management of public health in Canada
In 1974, the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau released a “green paper” known as the Lalonde Report, after the health minister at that time. The report formulated perspectives on health and the main concepts and ideas developed in it, particularly the concept of “lifestyle,” which became the foundation of public health policies in many different European countries and the United States. The concept of “lifestyle” connected personal behaviour a…
Critical Approaches in Nursing Theory and Nursing Research: Implications for Nursing Practice
Introduction: Critical Approaches in Nursing Theory and Nursing Research: Implications for Nursing Practice
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Mort d’Ashley Smith: Entre Bio-Politique Carcérale Et Souveraineté Judiciaire
Cet article constitue une relecture critique des circonstances entourant la mort d’Ashley Smith, une jeune femme décédée des causes d’asphyxie par auto-strangulation alors qu’elle avait été placée en isolement administratif par le Service correctionnel du Canada (SCC). La mort de Smith a été qualifiée d’« homicide » par un jury à la suite de l’enquête du coroner pour ensuite être qualifiée de « suicide » par le Service correctionnel du Canada (SC…
Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics
(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach
Contents: Foreword, Dave Holmes Introduction: (re)thinking violence in health care settings, Dave Holmes, Trudy Rudge, AmA(c)lie Perron and Isabelle St-Pierre Part I Institutional and Managerial Violence: A critical reflection on the use of behaviour modification programs in forensic psychiatry settings, Dave Holmes and Stuart J. Murray The violence of tolerance in a multicultural workplace: examples from nursing, Trudy Rudge, Virginia Mapedzaham…
Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and the Ethics of Body and Place: Critical Methodological Reflections
Desire, drug use and unsafe sex: A qualitative examination of gay men who attend gay circuit parties
Recently, there has been an increase in research dedicated to the topic of drug/alcohol use and unsafe sex among gay men. Findings of this work suggest that drug/alcohol use is particularly common within gay circuit parties (GCPs). More recently, this work has begun to suggest that further exploration is needed to understand the desires of gay men who use drugs and alcohol and who engage in unsafe sex. Based on the foregoing, an ethnographic stud…
The culture of fear: Expanding the concept of risk in forensic psychiatric nursing
The purpose of this article is to present, in part, the results of a nursing research that aimed at describing how fear influences nurse-patient interactions in a forensic psychiatric setting. Guided by an inductive research design (grounded theory), the analysis of data revealed that nurses incorporate a risk discourse into their practice. As a result, our data show that cultural narratives of risk affect the experience of nursing care and nurse…
Reflecting on HIV disclosure laws in the context of unsafe sex and the harm-reduction strategy
Governing through (in)security: A critical analysis of a fear-based public health campaign
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–…
The politics of evidence on ‘domestic terrorists’: Obesity discourses and their effects
The politics of evidence on ‘domestic terrorists’: Obesity discourses and their effects
Subjugated to the ‘apparatus of capture’: Self, sex and public health technologies
Designing a better place for patients: Professional struggles surrounding satellite and mobile dialysis units
Raw Sex as Limit Experience: A Foucauldian Analysis of Unsafe Anal Sex between Men
Public Health STI/HIV Surveillance: Exploring the Society of Control
While Michel Foucault asserted that the sovereign style of rule had disappeared, instead replaced by a disciplinary society (wherein individuals were trained/domesticated in a variety of social institutions), years later, Gilles Deleuze recounted how this social structure had again changed. Within this new system, which Deleuze labelled the society of control, social networks have become so densely intertwined that it no longer matters whether or…
Wired Sex Assemblages Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: Sexualized Drug Use, Hookup Apps, and HIV Service Provision
Sexualized drug use is a form of sexual practice that resists risk-based discourses (otherwise referred to as "radical sex practices") and is reportedly common among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). With the growth of online technologies, the use of hookup apps has also increased. We refer to men's use of drugs, apps, and sex form as "wired sex" that forms what post-structuralist theorists Deleuze and Guattari described …
Grinding against HIV discourse: A critical exploration of social sexual practices in gay cruising apps
Social networking applications (SNAs), such as Grindr, are shaping the identities and sexual practices of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM). This qualitative study aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the role of such technologies in social sexual practices, particularly in relation to risk management and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted blood-borne infections (STBBIs). Poststructuralism and queer theory w…
Displacement and Emplacement of Health Technology: Making Satellite and Mobile Dialysis Units Closer to Patients
The provision of "closer-to-patient" services has increased in most industrialized countries. However, the migration of services in non-traditional health care settings implies redefining the role of technical and human entities and transforming the nature and use of technologies and places. Drawing on various scholarly efforts to conceptualize space, place, and technology, this paper compares and contrasts satellite and mobile dialysis units imp…
Caring to Death: Health Care Professionals and Capital Punishment
The aim of this article is to describe the role of health care professionals in the capital punishment process. The relationship between the protocol of capital punishment in the United States and the use of health care professionals to carry out that task has been overlooked in the literature on punishment. Yet for some time, the operation of the medical sciences in prison have been `part of a disciplinary strategy' `intrinsic to the development…
Reflecting on HIV disclosure laws in the context of unsafe sex and the harm-reduction strategy
Biopower under a state of exception: Stories of dying and grieving alone during Covid-19 emergency measures
During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions for visitors and caregivers in healthcare settings and long-term care (LTC) facilities were enacted in the larger context of public health policies that included physical distancing and shelter-in-place orders. Older persons residing in LTC facilities constituted over half of the mortality statistics across Canada during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the poststructuralist work of Agamben…
Assembling bodies and technologies: A poststructural ethnography of sexualized drug use among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men
The identities and communities of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are undergoing reconfiguration through two technologies: the digital spaces of social networking and hookup apps, and the sexualized use of chemicals such as recreational and illicit drugs, pharmaceuticals, and steroids. These technologies are creating spaces for GBMSM to indulge in excesses and extremes of pleasure, generating what has been described as …
Mort d’Ashley Smith: Entre Bio-Politique Carcérale Et Souveraineté Judiciaire
Cet article constitue une relecture critique des circonstances entourant la mort d’Ashley Smith, une jeune femme décédée des causes d’asphyxie par auto-strangulation alors qu’elle avait été placée en isolement administratif par le Service correctionnel du Canada (SCC). La mort de Smith a été qualifiée d’« homicide » par un jury à la suite de l’enquête du coroner pour ensuite être qualifiée de « suicide » par le Service correctionnel du Canada (SC…
Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and the Ethics of Body and Place: Critical Methodological Reflections
The culture of fear: Expanding the concept of risk in forensic psychiatric nursing
The purpose of this article is to present, in part, the results of a nursing research that aimed at describing how fear influences nurse-patient interactions in a forensic psychiatric setting. Guided by an inductive research design (grounded theory), the analysis of data revealed that nurses incorporate a risk discourse into their practice. As a result, our data show that cultural narratives of risk affect the experience of nursing care and nurse…
Sovereign power, spectacle and punishment: A critical analysis of the use of the seclusion room
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…
Foucault and nursing: A history of the present
While a commitment to the development of nursing theory has been a significant force in nursing scholarship, particularly in the US, the authors have noted a recent trend among nurses in different countries to develop Foucauldian interpretations of nursing. The objective of this paper is to identify those publications by nurses that employ a Foucauldian perspective and to provide a useful summative review of these works to date, which illustrate …
Caring to Death: Health Care Professionals and Capital Punishment
The aim of this article is to describe the role of health care professionals in the capital punishment process. The relationship between the protocol of capital punishment in the United States and the use of health care professionals to carry out that task has been overlooked in the literature on punishment. Yet for some time, the operation of the medical sciences in prison have been `part of a disciplinary strategy' `intrinsic to the development…
Rhizomatic thought in nursing: An alternative path for the development of the discipline
For decades, nursing as a discipline has tried to establish itself within the socio‐professional and the socio‐political arenas. To date, several theorists have attempted to thoroughly define the essence (ontology) of nursing while others have proposed means (syntax) to achieve this ‘collective’ objective. Considering that this preoccupation, rooted in essentialism, is pervasive in the nursing literature, our claim is that these quests should be …
Agents of care and agents of the state: Bio‐power and nursing practice
Aim. This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the concept of bio‐power in the context of nursing, including a critique of the widespread rhetoric that nursing is deprived of power and consequently is an apolitical agency. Background. Traditionally, power tends to be defined in terms of repression, interdiction and punishment. On the contrary, work by Michel Foucault with regard to bio‐power brings into evidence the productive and positive nat…
How place matters: Unpacking technology and power in health and social care
The devolution of care into nontraditional community-based settings has led to a proliferation of sites for health and social care. Despite recent (re)formulations of 'evidence-based' approaches that stress the importance of optimizing interventions to best practice by taking into account the uniqueness of place, there is relatively little guidance in the literature and few attempts to systematically 'unpack' key dimensions of settings most relev…
Breaking Bodies Into Pieces: Time, Torture and Bio-Power
Raw Sex as Limit Experience: A Foucauldian Analysis of Unsafe Anal Sex between Men
M3S Squad: Considering Cyborgs for Future Sexual Health Prevention Programs
Amidst fiscal constraint and burgeoning health care demands, an innovative response to sexually transmitted infections was piloted in Quebec (Canada). This response arose out of the relationship of man and machine and resulted in the creation of cyborgs as a communication medium for the dissemination of safer sex messaging. These cyborgs physically carried the prevention message to a traditionally ‘at-risk’ audience, engaged their attention, and …
Designing a better place for patients: Professional struggles surrounding satellite and mobile dialysis units
Evaluating crack pipe distribution in Canada: A systems change case study
Patrick O’Byrnea* & Dave Holmesaa Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Understanding human sexual networks: A critique of the promiscuity paradigm
Increases in sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV rates worldwide have prompted the dedication of research to identifying transmission co-factors, with one such co-factor being an individual's number of different sexual partners. Currently, the majority of STI/HIV transmission models are based on the assumptions that sexual networks have random distributions; whereas, in real-life, these assumptions have proven incorrect because group nor…
Displacement and Emplacement of Health Technology: Making Satellite and Mobile Dialysis Units Closer to Patients
The provision of "closer-to-patient" services has increased in most industrialized countries. However, the migration of services in non-traditional health care settings implies redefining the role of technical and human entities and transforming the nature and use of technologies and places. Drawing on various scholarly efforts to conceptualize space, place, and technology, this paper compares and contrasts satellite and mobile dialysis units imp…
Unprotected sex among men who have sex with men in Canada: Exploring rationales and expanding HIV prevention
In Canada, there have been recent increases in HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM), making HIV transmission among MSM a continuing public health concern. In this paper, we explore the rationales of MSM for the practice of unprotected sex in casual or anonymous encounters. We found that the men in our sample acknowledged their ‘transgressive’ behaviour, engaged in numerous harm-reduction strategies, and offered varied yet connecte…
Sovereign power, spectacle and punishment: A critical analysis of the use of the seclusion room
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…
Public Health STI/HIV Surveillance: Exploring the Society of Control
While Michel Foucault asserted that the sovereign style of rule had disappeared, instead replaced by a disciplinary society (wherein individuals were trained/domesticated in a variety of social institutions), years later, Gilles Deleuze recounted how this social structure had again changed. Within this new system, which Deleuze labelled the society of control, social networks have become so densely intertwined that it no longer matters whether or…
Governing through (in)security: A critical analysis of a fear-based public health campaign
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–…
The politics of evidence on ‘domestic terrorists’: Obesity discourses and their effects
Subjugated to the ‘apparatus of capture’: Self, sex and public health technologies
Desire, drug use and unsafe sex: A qualitative examination of gay men who attend gay circuit parties
Recently, there has been an increase in research dedicated to the topic of drug/alcohol use and unsafe sex among gay men. Findings of this work suggest that drug/alcohol use is particularly common within gay circuit parties (GCPs). More recently, this work has begun to suggest that further exploration is needed to understand the desires of gay men who use drugs and alcohol and who engage in unsafe sex. Based on the foregoing, an ethnographic stud…
The culture of fear: Expanding the concept of risk in forensic psychiatric nursing
The purpose of this article is to present, in part, the results of a nursing research that aimed at describing how fear influences nurse-patient interactions in a forensic psychiatric setting. Guided by an inductive research design (grounded theory), the analysis of data revealed that nurses incorporate a risk discourse into their practice. As a result, our data show that cultural narratives of risk affect the experience of nursing care and nurse…
Reflecting on HIV disclosure laws in the context of unsafe sex and the harm-reduction strategy
Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and the Ethics of Body and Place: Critical Methodological Reflections
Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics
(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach
Contents: Foreword, Dave Holmes Introduction: (re)thinking violence in health care settings, Dave Holmes, Trudy Rudge, AmA(c)lie Perron and Isabelle St-Pierre Part I Institutional and Managerial Violence: A critical reflection on the use of behaviour modification programs in forensic psychiatry settings, Dave Holmes and Stuart J. Murray The violence of tolerance in a multicultural workplace: examples from nursing, Trudy Rudge, Virginia Mapedzaham…
Critical Approaches in Nursing Theory and Nursing Research: Implications for Nursing Practice
Sociology (33 works) · Medicine (26 works) · Political science (26 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Law (17 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (13 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public relations (9 works)