 | Michael Orsini Full Professor, School of Political Studies - University of Ottawa |
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01.04.2014-30.04.2014
The Role of Emotions in the Framing of Health Policy Controversies: The Cases of Obesity and Criminalization of HIV
We have identified three main objectives that we would like to accomplish with this research project:: a) identify how, when and which emotions matter in the two health policy controversies that frame this project (obesity policy and the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure); b) elaborate on how the character of policy discourses differs depending upon the policy field and stigmatized group in question; and; c) assess the impact on health policy discourse of the specific constellation of actors that coalesces around a policy issue, especially those interactions among local, national and international policy actors. We imagine that these objectives might not be accomplished in the span of our short research trip, but we are confident that we will be able to devote considerable, focused effort to thinking through the important research questions that frame our project. We are confident, as well, that we will benefit greatly from this unique interdisciplinary environment where we can engage in sustained conversations about pressing health matters with scholars who bring distinctive perspectives to the issue. For instance, we are interested in exploring further how evolving scientific knowledge about HIV transmission and the notion of "significant risk" have become integrated into global understandings of HIV responses, and think that we can refine our own arguments as a result of exchanges with scholars and researchers who address issues related to risk and health-related behaviours in their own work.
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