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  • Hastings, Colin, Martin French, Alexander McClelland, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Barry Adam, Laura Bisaillon, Katarina Bogosavljevic, Marilou Gagnon, Saara Greene, Adrian Guta, Suzanne Hindmarch, Angela Kaida, Jennifer Kilty, Notisha Massaquoi, Viviane Namaste, Patrick O’Byrne, Michael Orsini, Sophie Patterson, Chris Sanders, Alison Symington, and Ciann Wilson (2024). “Criminal Code Reform of HIV Non-Disclosure is Urgently Needed: Social Science Perspectives on the Harms of HIV Criminalization in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Public Health 115: 8-14.
  • Hoebanx, Pauline and Martin French (2023). “Interpassive Gambling: The Case of Slot Machine Vlogs on YouTube,” Critical Gambling Studies, 4(1): 66–76.
  • Murch, W. Spencer, Sylvia Kairouz, Sophie Dauphinais, Elyse Picard, Jean-Michel Costes and Martin French. (2023). “Using Machine Learning to Retrospectively Predict Self-Reported Gambling Problems in Quebec,” Addiction, 118(8): 1569-1578.
  • Spieldenner, Andrew, Martin French, Venita Ray, Brian Minalga, Cristine Sardina, Robert Suttle, Marco Castro-Bojorquez, Octavia Lewis, and Laurel Sprague. (2022). “The Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (MIPA): The Participatory Praxis Approach to Community Engagement on HIV Surveillance,” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 14 (2): 1-11.
  • French, Martin, Dani Tardif, Sylvia Kairouz and Annie-Claude Savard (2021). “A Governmentality of Online Gambling: Quebec’s Contested Internet Gambling Website Blocking Provisions,” Canadian Journal of Law & Society, 36(3): 483-504. ( Canadian Law and Society Association Prize for Best Journal Article of 2021).
  • Whitson, Jennifer and Martin French (2021). “Productive Play: The Shift from Responsible Consumption to Responsible Production ,” Journal of Consumer Culture, 21(1): 14-33.
  • Zanescu, Andrei, Marc Lajeunesse, and Martin French (2021). “Speculating on Steam: Consumption in the Gamblified Platform Ecosystem ,” Journal of Consumer Culture, 21(1): 34-51.
  • Mykhalovskiy, Eric and Martin French (2020). “COVID-19, Public Health, and the Politics of Prevention,” Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(8): 4-15.
  • French, Martin, Adrian Guta, Marilou Gagnon, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Stephen Roberts, Alexander McClelland, Su Goh, and Fenwick McKelvey (2020). “Corporate Contact Tracing as a Pandemic Response,” Critical Public Health, 32(1), 48-55.
  • Zanescu, Andrei, Martin French, and Marc Lajeunesse (2020). “Betting on DOTA 2’s Battle Pass: Gamblification and Productivity in Play,” New Media & Society, 23(10), 2882-2901.
  • Lynch, Erin, David Howes and Martin French. (2020). “A Touch of Luck and a “Real Taste of Vegas,”: A Sensory Ethnography of the Montreal Casino,” Senses & Society, 15(2): 192-215
  • Reynolds, Jennifer, Sylvia Kairouz, Samantha Ilacqua, and Martin French. (2020). “Responsible Gambling: A Scoping Review,” Critical Gambling Studies, 1(1): 23-39
  • French, Martin, Fiona A. Miller and Renata Axler (2019). “‘It’s actually part of clinical care’: biobanking in the entrepreneurial hospital,” Technoscienza, 9(2): 133-158.
  • Swiffen, Amy and Martin French (2018). “Seropolitics and the Criminal Accusation of HIV Non-Disclosure in Canada,” New Criminal Law Review 21(4): 545-566.
  • Gagnon, Marilou, Martin French and Yamilee Hébert (2018). “The HIV Self-Testing Debate: Where do we Stand?” BMC International Health and Human Rights ,” Academic MedicineBMC International Health and Human Rights, 18(5).
  • McClelland, Alexander, Martin French, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Marilou Gagnon, Eli Manning, Ryan Peck, Chad Clarke, and Tim McCaskell. (2017). “The Harms of HIV Criminalization: Responding to the ‘Association of HIV Diagnosis Rates and Laws Criminalizing HIV Exposure in the United States’,” AIDS 31(13): 1899-1900.
  • Miller, Fiona and Martin French (2016). “Organizing the Entrepreneurial Hospital: Hybridizing the Logics of Healthcare and Innovation ,” Research Policy 45(8): 1534-1544.
  • French, Martin (2015). “Counselling Anomie: Clashing Governmentalities of HIV Criminalisation and Prevention ,” Critical Public Health 25(4): 427-440.
  • French, Martin (2014). “Gaps in the Gaze: Informatic Practice and the Work of Public Health Surveillance ,” Surveillance & Society 12(2): 226–243.
  • Miller, Fiona, Mentzakis, Emmanouil, Axler, Renata, French, Martin, Lehoux, Pascale, Slater, Barbara, Tarride, Jean-Eric, Wodchis, Walter, Bytautas, Jessica, Wilson, Brenda, and Longo, Chris (2013). “Do Canadian Researchers and the Lay Public Prioritize Biomedical Research Outcomes Equally? ,” Academic Medicine 88(4): 519–526.
  • French, Martin and Eric Mykhalovskiy (2013), “Public Health Intelligence and the Detection of Potential Pandemics ,” Sociology of Health & Illness 35(2): 174–187.
  • French, Martin and Fiona Miller (2012), “Leveraging the ‘Living Laboratory’: On the Emergence of the Entrepreneurial Hospital ,” Social Science & Medicine 75(4): 717–724.
  • French, Martin (2009), “Woven of War-Time Fabrics: The Globalization of Public Health Surveillance ,” Surveillance & Society 6(2): 101–115. ( Winner, Surveillance Studies Network Annual Paper Prize, 2009).
  • French, Martin (2007), “ In the Shadow of Canada’s Camps ,” Social & Legal Studies 16(1): 49–69.

Edited Works

  • French, Martin and Gavin Smith (eds). (2016). “Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture” Body & Society 22(2): 3-177.
  • French, Martin and Smith, Gavin (eds). (2013). “Health Surveillance and Everyday Life—Special Section,” Critical Public Health 23(4): 383-431.

Contact Me

Martin French, PhD
Associate Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montréal, QC, H3G 1M8

Phone: 514.848.2424 x2110
Email: martin.french@concordia.ca