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Overview

Dave Holmes is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with extensive work in Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science as notable subfields. Additional areas of focus in their publications include General Health Professions, Social Psychology, and Infectious Diseases.

Holmes's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Sex work and related issues

Their research has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Nursing Philosophy
  • Nursing Inquiry
  • Journal of Forensic Nursing
  • Research and Theory for Nursing Practice
  • International Journal of Sexual Health

Holmes has collaborated often with several coauthors, including:

  • Jim A. Johansson
  • Chad Hammond
  • Candace W. Burton
  • Étienne Paradis-Gagné
  • Lauren Orser

Recent papers authored by Holmes or in which they have contributed include:

  • "Traditional, religious, and cultural perspectives on mental illness: a qualitative study on causal beliefs and treatment use" (2022), published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being
  • "Motivational pathways underlying the onset and maintenance of viewing child pornography on the Internet" (2020), published in Behavioral Sciences & the Law
  • "Queering nursing curricula: Understanding and increasing attention to LGBTQIA+ health needs" (2020), published in the Journal of Professional Nursing
  • "Sexualized drug use in virtual space: A scoping review of how gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men interact online" (2020), published in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
  • "Hospitals as total institutions" (2021), published in Nursing Philosophy

Best Publications

  • Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and fascism.

    Dave Holmes;Stuart J Murray;Amélie Perron;Geneviève Rail

  • Nursing as means of governmentality.

    Dave Holmes;Denise Gastaldo

  • Reflexivity, critical qualitative research and emancipation: a Foucauldian perspective.

    Janet L. McCabe;Dave Holmes

  • How place matters: unpacking technology and power in health and social care.

    B. Poland;P. Lehoux;D. Holmes;G. Andrews

  • THE MENTALLY ILL AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE USE OF SECLUSION FROM THE PATIENT'S PERSPECTIVE

    Dave Holmes;Suzanne L Kennedy;Amélie Perron

  • Agents of care and agents of the state: bio-power and nursing practice

    Amélie Perron;Carol Fluet;Dave Holmes

  • Foucault and nursing: a history of the present

    Denise Gastaldo;Dave Holmes

  • The politics of evidence on ‘domestic terrorists’: Obesity discourses and their effects

    Geneviève Rail;Dave Holmes;Stuart J Murray

  • Police and pastoral power: governmentality and correctional forensic psychiatric nursing.

    Dave Holmes

  • Evidence, virulence, and the disappearance of nursing knowledge: A critique of the evidence-based dogma.

    Dave Holmes;Amélie Perron;Patrick O'Byrne

  • Governing the captives: forensic psychiatric nursing in corrections.

    Dave Holmes

  • The anatomy of a forbidden desire: men, penetration and semen exchange.

    Dave Holmes;Dan Warner

  • Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and the Ethics of Body and Place: Critical Methodological Reflections

    Stuart J. Murray;Dave Holmes

  • Governing through (in)security: a critical analysis of a fear-based public health campaign

    Marilou Gagnon;Jean Daniel Jacob;Dave Holmes

  • From iron gaze to nursing care: mental health nursing in the era of panopticism

    D. Holmes

  • No exit? Intellectual integrity under the regime of 'evidence' and 'best-practices'.

    Stuart J. Murray;Dave Holmes;Amélie Perron;Geneviève Rail

  • Rhizomatic thought in nursing: an alternative path for the development of the discipline.

    Dave Holmes;Denise Gastaldo

  • The relationship between organizational justice and workplace aggression.

    Isabelle St-Pierre;Dave Holmes

  • Understanding Disgust in Nursing: Abjection, Self, and the Other

    Dave Holmes;Amélie Perron;Patrick O'Byrne

  • Managing nurses through disciplinary power: a Foucauldian analysis of workplace violence

    Isabelle St-Pierre;Dave Holmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavin Andrews
Gavin Andrews University of New South Wales
Blake Poland
Blake Poland University of Toronto
Pascale Lehoux
Pascale Lehoux University of Montreal
Rebecca M. C. Spencer
Rebecca M. C. Spencer University of Massachusetts Amherst

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