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Philippa Spoel
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Latest papers
Constituting good health citizenship through British Columbia's COVID-19 public updates.
Health (London, England : 1997) · 2023 · first author
Representations of clinical practice guidelines and health equity in healthcare literature: An integrative review.
Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2023
Public health promotion of "local food": Constituting the self-governing citizen-consumer.
Health (London, England : 1997) · 2017 · senior author
Latest funding
- $57,435
The textual formation of a healthcare profession: a rhetorical analysis of the regulatory documents governing Ontario's midwifery profession
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
6 publications.
Constituting good health citizenship through British Columbia's COVID-19 public updates.
Spoel P, Lacelle N, Millar A
Representations of clinical practice guidelines and health equity in healthcare literature: An integrative review.
McMillan Boyles C, Spoel P, Montgomery P, Nonoyama M, Montgomery K
Public health promotion of "local food": Constituting the self-governing citizen-consumer.
Derkatch C, Spoel P
Rhetorics of health citizenship: exploring vernacular critiques of government's role in supporting healthy living.
Spoel P, Harris R, Henwood F
The moralization of healthy living: Burke's rhetoric of rebirth and older adults' accounts of healthy eating.
Spoel P, Harris R, Henwood F
Negotiating public and professional interests: a rhetorical analysis of the debate concerning the regulation of midwifery in Ontario, Canada.
Spoel P, James S
The textual formation of a healthcare profession: a rhetorical analysis of the regulatory documents governing Ontario's midwifery profession
Principal investigators: Spoel, Philippa M.
Keywords: rhetoric; midwifery; professional discourses; professionalization; health care regulation; women's health care; genre studies
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Mika Nonoyama and Phyllis Montgomery: 1 shared paper
- Mika Nonoyama and Philippa Spoel: 1 shared paper
- Phyllis Montgomery and Philippa Spoel: 1 shared paper
- Professor, Department of English (Rhetoric and Media Studies)
- School of Nursing
- Other
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