Marilou Gagnon

Assistant Professor
Room: RGN 3021 H
Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 8249
Fax: (613) 562-5443
E-mail: marilou.gagnon@uottawa.ca

Biography

Marilou Gagnon is Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. As a doctoral student, she was the recipient of a doctoral research award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). Her doctoral research project explored the experiences of women living with HIV who suffer from HAART-induced body shape changes, also known as lipodystrophy. Her postdoctoral research project examined the trajectory of people who undergo reconstructive treatments for facial lipoatrophy. Her work is underpinned by critical and sociopolitical approaches and is concerned with questions of power, discourses and stigma. As a researcher, Marilou is a member of the University Chair in Forensic Nursing and is currently working on a number of projects that revolve around HIV criminalization, HIV-related discrimination in health care settings, and human rights. As a registered nurse, her professional practice is grounded in the fields of critical care nursing and HIV/AIDS nursing.

Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University

Research Interests

• Critical theory and Feminist perspectives
  
• Medico-pharmaceutical complex
  
• Interface body-technology
  
• People living with HIV/AIDS (women living with HIV/AIDS)
  
• Marginalization and Deviance
  
• Politics of HIV/AIDS
  
• Women’s Health
  

Publications

Articles in peer reviewed journals

• Gagnon, M. (2012). Understanding the experience of reconstructive treatments from the perspective of people who suffer from facial lipoatrophy : A qualitative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies

• Gagnon, M. (2012). Toward a critical response to HIV criminalization: Remarks on advocacy and social justice. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 23 (1), 11-15.
• Gagnon, M. & Holmes, D. (2011). Bodies in Mutation: Understanding Lipodystrophy Among Women Living with HIV/AIDS. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 25 (1), 23-38.
• Gagnon, M. & Holmes, D. (2010). Women living with HIV/AIDS and the Bodily Transformation Process known as Lipodystrophy: A grounded theory study. Journal of Research in Nursing, Online First.
• Gagnon, M. (2010). Femmes vivant avec le VIH/sida et lipodystrophie: vers une compréhension qualitative du processus de transformations corporelles. Aporia : La revue en sciences infirmières, 2 (3), 32-40.
• Gagnon, M., Jacob, J. D. & Holmes, D. (2010). Governing through (in)security: A critical analysis of fear-based public health campaigns. Critical Public Health,20 (2), 245-256.
• Jacob, J. D., Gagnon, M., Perron, A. & Holmes, D. (2009). Sovereign Power, Spectacle and Punishment: The Use of the Seclusion Room in Psychiatric Nursing. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 2 (2), 75-85
• Gagnon, M. (2009). (Re)thinking the corporeality of HIV/AIDS in the post-HAART era: A critical perspective. Aporia: The Nursing Journal, 1(3), 18-27.
• Jacob, J. D., Gagnon, M. & Holmes, D. (2009). Nursing so-called “monsters”: on the importance of fear in forensic psychiatric care. Journal of Forensic Nursing,5, 153-161.
• Gagnon, M. & Stuart, M. (2009). Manufacturing Disability: HIV, Women and the Construction of Difference. Nursing Philosophy, 10 (1) 42-52.
• Gagnon, M. & Holmes, D. (2008). Governing masses: routine HIV testing and the deployment of another public health counteroffensive in the war against HIV/AIDS. Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, 9(4), 264-274.
• Côté, J., Godin, G., Ramirez Garcia, P., Gagnon, M. & Rouleau, G. (2008). Program Development for Enhancing Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 22 (12), 965-975.
• Holmes, D. & Gagnon, M. (2008). Evidence to practice & practice to evidence: Misunderstanding the epistemic incommensurability. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 14, 663-664.
• Gagnon, M. & Holmes, D. (2008). Moving beyond biomedical understanding of lipodystrophy in people living with HIV/AIDS. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 22 (4), 228-240.

Book chapters

• Gagnon, M. & Jacob, J.D. (Forthcoming, 2011). The Rise of Violence in HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaigns: A Critical Discourse Analysis. In D. Holmes, T. Rudge & A. Perron (Eds), (Re)Thinking Violence in Healthcare: A Critical Perspective. Surrey: Ashgate Publication.

• Gagnon, M. & Holmes, D. (2010). Accessibilité aux pharmacothérapies antirétrovirales : vers une compréhension politique de la situation en Afrique sub-saharienne.Dans S. Yaya (Éd), Les maux et les choses de la santé : acteurs, pratiques et systèmes de santé dans le Tiers-monde. Les Presses de l’Université Laval.
• Gagnon, M. (2010). Managing the Other within the Self: Bodily Experiences of HIV/AIDS. In T. Rudge & D. Holmes (Eds), Abjectly Boundless : Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work. London : Ashgate Publication.
• Holmes, D., Lauzon, S. & Gagnon, M. (2010). Encountering the Other: Nursing, Dementia Care and the Self. In T. Rudge & D. Holmes (Eds), Abjectly Boundless : Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work. London : Ashgate Publication.