Amélie Perron

Biography

Amélie Perron is an Assistant professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. She has worked on many research projects in the fields of psychiatry and forensic psychiatry in Canada, in France, and in Australia. She has also collaborated on projects in public health. She received financial support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her fields of interest include nursing care provided to captive and marginalised populations, psychiatric nursing, forensic psychiatry, power relationships between health care professionals and patients, as well as issues of discourse, risk, gender and ethics. Her clinical practice is grounded in community psychiatry and crisis intervention. She was a Visting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the Receiving Editor for Aporia (www.aporiajournal.com).

Institution

2009

2008

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Ph.D.

Nursing

Nursing

University of Sydney

University of Ottawa

Research Interests

• psychiatry
• forensic psychiatry
• vulnerable populations, marginalised populations
• subjectivity, social representations, identity construction
• power/knowledge
• discourse
• risk, risk management
• social control
• gender issues
• ethics
• critical theory and poststructuralist perpective
• discourse deconstruction
• epistemology

Publications

• Perron, A. (Accepted). The forensic patient’s moral career as a measure of institutional disciplinary processes. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health.
• O’Grady, K. & Perron, A. (Accepted). Reformulating lead-based paint as a problem in Canada. American Journal of Public Health.
• Perron, A., Rudge, T., Blais, AM. & Holmes, D. (2011). Ideology, nursing ontology, and ethics as politics: a response to Dr. Speraw. Advances in Nursing Science, 34(1), 3-5.
• Perron, A. & Holmes, D. (2011). Constructing mentally ill inmates: Nurses’ discursive practices in corrections. Nursing Inquiry, 18(1), 1-14.
• Mapedzahama, V., West, S., Rudge, T. & Perron, A. (Accepted). Black Nurse in White Space? Rethinking the In/Visibility of Race Within the Australian Nursing Workplace. Nursing Inquiry.
• Perron, A., Rudge, T., Blais, AM. & Holmes, D. (2010). The politics of nursing knowledge and education: Critical pedagogy in the face of the militarisation of nursing in the war on terror. Advances in Nursing Science, 33(3), 184-195.
• Perron, A., Rudge, T. & Holmes, D. (2010). Citizen minds, citizen bodies: The citizenship experience and the government of mentally ill persons. Nursing Philosophy, 11, 100-111.
• Perron, A. & Holmes, D. (2010). En marge de l’expérience citoyenne: le cas de personnes atteintes de maladies mentales. Santé mentale, 147, 17-22.
• Rudge, T., Holmes, D. & Perron, A. (2010). The Rise of Practice Development with/in Reformed Bureaucracy: Discourse, Power, and the Government of Nursing. Journal of Nursing Management.
• Gagnon, M., Jacob, JD., Perron, A. & Holmes, D. (2009). Sovereign Power, Spectacle and the Deviant Body: The Use of the Seclusion Room in Psychiatric Nursing. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 2(2), 1-11.
• Holmes, D., Murray, S. & Perron, A. (2009). “Insufficient” but still “necessary”? EBPM’s dangerous leap of faith: Commentary on Porter and O’Halloran. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46, 749-750.
• Holmes, D., Murray, S., Perron, A., & Jacob, JD. (2008). Données probantes et pratiques exemplaires : vers une éthique de la résistance. Santé Mentale, 130, 5-8.
• Holmes, D., Roy. B, & Perron, A. (2008). The Use of Postcolonialism in the Nursing Domain: Colonial Patronage, Conversion and Resistance. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(1), 42-51.
• Holmes, D., Murray, S., Perron, A., & Jacob, JD. (2008). Le mouvement sur les données probantes: état de la situation. Santé Mentale, 130, 2-4.
• Holmes, D., Murray, S., Perron, A., & McCabe, J. (2008). Nursing Best Practice Guidelines: Reflecting on the Obscene Rise of the Void. Journal of Nursing Management, 16(4), 394-403.
• Murray, S., Holmes, D., Perron, A., & Rail, G. (2008). Toward an Ethics of Authentic Practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice – International Journal of Public Health Policy and Health Services Research, 13(5).
• Holmes, D., Perron, A., & Guimond, P. (2007). La mise en salle d’isolement en milieux psychiatriques : critique du processus décisionnel. Santé Mentale, 116, 17-23.
• Holmes, D., Perron, A. & Michaud, G. (2007). Nursing in Corrections: Lessons from France. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 3, 3-4, 126-131.
• Holmes, D. & Perron, A. (2007). Violating Ethics: Unlawful Combatants, National Security and Health Professionals. British Medical Journal/ Journal of Medical Ethics, 33(3), 143-145.
• Holmes, D., Perron, A., & O’Byrne, P. (2006). Understanding Disgust in Nursing: Abjection, Self, and the Other. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, 20(4), 305-315.
• Holmes, D., Murray, S., Perron, A., & Rail, G. (2006). Deconstructing the Evidence-Based Discourse in Health Sciences: Truth, Power, and Fascism. International Journal of Evidence Based Health Care, 4, 180-186.
• Perron, A. & Holmes, D. (2006). Advanced Practice: A Clinical or Political Issue? Canadian Nurse, 102(7) , 26-28, 35.
• Perron, A., Fluet, C. & Holmes, D. (2005). Agents of Care and Agents of the State: Bio-Power and Nursing Practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 50(5), 536-544.
• Perron, A., Holmes, D., Hamonet, C. (2004). Capture, mortification, dépersonnalisation : la pratique infirmière en milieu correctionnel. Journal de réadaptation médicale, 24(4), 124-131.

Book chapters

• Perron, A.  & Holmes, D. (2010). Vers une compréhension élargie des phénomènes liés à la santé : l’utilité des sciences sociales au regard de la maladie mentale. Dans N. Vonarx, L. Bujold & L. Hamelin-Brabant (Éds.). Des sciences sociales dans le champ de la santé et des soins infirmiers. Tome 1. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval.
• Holmes, D., Delgado Hito, P., & Perron, A. (2009). Allaitement maternel et nouvel ordre social: gouvernementalité, soins infirmiers et construction de la maternité. Dans Yaya, S. (Éd.). Pouvoir médical et santé totalitaire : conséquences socio-anthropologiques et éthiques.
• Roy, B., Holmes, D., & Perron, A. (2008). Soins infirmiers et gestion biopolitique: réflexion critique sur le rôle infirmier dans l’acte vaccinal. In C. Dallaire & O. Goulet (Eds). Soins infirmiers: enjeux et perspectives. Montréal: Gaëtan Morin.
• Holmes, D. & Perron, A. (2008). L’infirmière praticienne en soins de première ligne: entre colonisation et affranchissement. Dans C. Dallaire & O. Goulet (Éds). Soins infirmiers: enjeux et perspectives. Montréal: Gaëtan Morin.
• Perron, A. & Holmes, D. (2007). Institution d’un Ordre infirmier national en France: de la compétence professionnelle à la légitimité politique. In P. Delmas & C. Sliwka (Eds). Ordre infirmier français. Enjeux et perspectives (pp. 77-90). Québec: Éditions Lamarre.
• Holmes, D. & Perron, A. (2006). Dimensions politiques en soins infirmiers : du théorique à l’empirique. In P. Delmas & Mayrand-Leclerc, M. (Eds). Sortir du management panique. Québec : Éditions Lamarre.
• Holmes, D. & Perron, A. (2005). Populations vulnérables et santé communautaire. In G. Carroll (Ed). Soins infirmiers en santé communautaire. Chenelière Éditions.