OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Medical Anthropology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Narratives on Reproductive Justice Among Black Adolescent Girls in Clinical Research in the US	19
Nurturing the Female Body: Notions of Wellbeing in Womb Yoga	18
Compounded Caregiving: Mexican Women in Migrant-Sending Families During COVID-19	16
Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History	15
Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs : Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States	14
On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy	14
Commentary on Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health	12
The Centrality and Value of Women’s Voices	11
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	11
Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’	10
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	10
Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward	10
Good, Bad Religious Leaders: Binary Talk in a Tanzanian Health Project	10
Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds	9
“The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer”: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana	9
Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic	9
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	8
Epistemologies of Living With and Treating Rare Metabolic Disorders	8
Independent Homebirth Midwives in France: The Persecution of a Profession	8
(Mis)Perceiving Apnea and Insomnia in Germany: A Tale of Two Disorders	7
Health Care Delays and Social Suffering Among Indigenous People with Diabetic Foot Complications in Mexico	7
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	7
Covid-19 and Social Stigma in Hospitals: A New Epidemic of Signification?	7
Sensing Rhabdomyolysis: Building Sensorial Knowledge in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Poland	6
Foreword	6

Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children	6
Surveillance in Medically Assisted Reproductive Care in France	5
Afterword: Disease Reservoirs and Spatial Imaginaries in the Time of COVID-19	5
Chagas Disease across Contexts: Scientific Knowledge in a Globalized World	5
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada	5
Making It Count – Tracing Signs of Consciousness and Potentiality in Severe Brain Injury in Denmark	5
A’uwẽ (Xavante) Social Constructions of Well-Being in Central Brazil	4
Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art	4
“ Yo trato de no llorar ”: Rethinking Obstetric Violence in Costa Rica	4
Finding Words for Feeling Bodies: Exploring Drawing Techniques in Dutch Care Practices	4
Pregnancy and the Reproductive Habitus of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women	4
Sensing and the Shadows: Invisible Work in Medical Education in the Netherlands	4
An Introduction to the Medical Anthropology of Care and Self-Care	4
Narrating Digital Access, Trauma, and Disability Through Comics and Image Description in Denmark	4
The Multispecies Sociality of Digestion and the Microbiopolitics of the Belly Among Somalis in Ethiopia	4
The Politics of (Non)endemicity: Chagas Disease in the United States	4
“I’m Just Sitting Now. Wondering.”: Surviving the Wait for Disability	4
Deviant Swedes in the Global Covid-19 Media Environment	4
The Ecological Origins and Consequences of the Rodent Bait Station: From WWII Britain to Contemporary California	4
Rethinking Immunity: An Ethnography of Risk and Migration in Sweden	4
“Everything in India Happens by Jugaad”: Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan	3
Correction	3
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	3
Tinkering with Time versus Being under the Spell of Time	3
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies	3
“Demand Side” Health Insurance in India: The Price of Obfuscation	3
Contesting the Reservoir: Guarani-Mbya Criticisms of Zoonosis, Race, and Dirt in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, Brazil	3
Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland	3
Un-Knowing the Embryo: The Moral Labor of Doing Preimplantation Genetic Testing in France	3
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	3
Pricing the Priceless Surgery: Professional Expertise and the Marketing of High-Risk Surgery in South Korea	2
Ambivalent Speculations: Learning to Live with Barrett’s Esophagus in the UK Using Facebook Support Groups	2
What Are Your Goals? Goal-Setting Logics in Danish Parkinson’s Rehabilitation	2
Reproduction, Life-course and Vital Conjunctures in the Context of Austerity	2
Sound Baths, Trauma Talk, and the Wellness Paradox in the USA	2
“Blood Has No Colour”: Racialized Donor In/Ex-clusion in the South African National Blood Service	2
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia	2
Emerging Technologies for Preventing the ‘New’ Dementia: Ambiguous Optimism in the Canadian Context	2
Care in Ruination: Accessing Children's Critiques of Health Through Playwriting	2
Coming Out of Employers’ Homes: Migration, Domestic Work and Health Claims	2
Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19	2
Reconfiguring Breast Reconstruction in the Post-Cancer Life in Vietnam	2
“Not Like This”: Embodying Blackness and Childhood Cancer in the United States	2
Stewardship and Family Caregiving for People with Dementia in Shanghai	2
Are There Global Syndemics?	2
Correction	2
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participation	2
A “Rich People’s Disease”: Migrant Workers and Structural Disability in China	2
Waiting for Care and Community Organizing for Serious Health-Related Suffering in Kerala, India	2
The Reconfiguration of Stigma: (Mis)understanding the COVID-19 Infection and Contagion in Rural Central China	2

Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness	2
Witchcraft and Cancer in the Narrative of a Portuguese Woman	2
Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine	2
Framing Kin Resistance to Opioid Overdose in Philadelphia	2
Complimentary Addictions: Pharmaceutical Experimentalism and the Problem of Recovery in Baltimore	2
Local Pathways of “Serodiscordant Couples”: Unpacking a Global HIV Population Category in Papua New Guinea	1
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being	1
Discerning Epidemic Preparedness in Sierra Leone	1
“Restoring the Sacred Part of Birth”: Doula Care and Cesarean Birth in Switzerland	1
Covid-19 Riskscapes: Viral Risk Perceptions in the African Great Lakes	1
Social Iatrogenesis and Social Risks Among Queer PrEP Users in Dar Es Salaam	1
Outliers and Rogue Doctors: Manufacturing “Anxiety” Around Older Mothers in India	1
“Backing Weakness:” Conceptualizations of Q’eqchi’ Women’s Vulnerability in Belize	1
Defining the Limits of Acceptable Parenthood: Reproductive Governance in Brazil	1
Mistrustful Dependency: Mistrust as Risk Management in an Italian Emergency Department	1
Navigating Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Missouri: From Patient Navigation to Social Navigation	1
Signs of Nothing: Negotiations Over Semiotic Indeterminacy in Danish Lung Cancer Diagnostics	1
Shifting Priorities and Neoliberal Ideologies in Refugee Health Intervention Design in the US	1
The Ambiguity Imperative: “Success” in a Maternal Health Program in Uganda	1
Road of No Return: Uncertainty, Ambivalence, and Change in IVF Journeys in China	1
Expanding Medical Semiotics	1
Decision-making and Poor Prognosis: When Death is Silenced by Action	1
Relational Harm: On the Divisive Effects of Global Health Volunteering at a Hospital in Rural Zambia	1
Chagas Congenital Screening in Switzerland: Processes of Recognition and Knowledge-Sharing	1
Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland	1
Demographic Anxiety and Abortion: Italian Pro-Life Volunteers’ and Gynecologists’ Perspectives	1
Adoption of Diabetes Technology in Denmark: Continuous Glucose Monitor as Time-Machine	1
When Coffee Collapsed: An Economic History of HIV in Uganda	1
Time for a Focus on Climate Change and Health	1
Over-looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health	1
The “Reservoir” Metaphor in Anti-Venereal-Disease Campaigns in Mid-Twentieth-Century North America	1
The Persistence of Traditional Healing for Mental Illness Among the Korekore People in Rushinga District, Zimbabwe	1
“Whatever They Say I Do the Opposite”: Vaccine Resistance in Turkey During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Generative Hanging Out: Developing Engaged Practices for Health-Related Research ¹	1
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)	1
Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy	1
Correction	1
Adapt and Adjust: Doing UK-Based Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
We Are Still Here: Living with HIV in the UK	1
Recentering Labor in the Egg Donation Bioeconomy: Egg Donors’ (Re)productive Work and Subjectification in Spain	1
Correction	1
Navigating Chemical Toxicity in Coca Production in the Colombian Borderlands of Putumayo	1
Correction	1
Partner Exclusion from Childbirth During COVID-19 in Canada: Implications for Theory and Policy	1