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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound Baths, Trauma Talk, and the Wellness Paradox in the USA	34
Responsibilities of Risk: Living with Mental Illness During COVID-19	29
On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy	19
Sensing and the Shadows: Invisible Work in Medical Education in the Netherlands	18
Health, Migration, and NTDs: An Anthropological View	14
“Watering-Down” Strict HIV Testing Quotas on Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men Community-Based Organizations	14
Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy	12
Amulets and Cord Blood: Understanding Banking and Regenerative Medicine in Chennai, India	12
Autonomy in Austerity Times. Examining Hormonal Contraceptive Implants in Argentina	11
Narratives on Reproductive Justice Among Black Adolescent Girls in Clinical Research in the US	10
Compounded Caregiving: Mexican Women in Migrant-Sending Families During COVID-19	10
“Back to the Jungle”: Investigating Rats, Grass, Scrub Typhus, and Plantations in Malaya, 1924 – 1974	9
“Not Like This”: Embodying Blackness and Childhood Cancer in the United States	9
Ringing the Existential Alarm: Exploring BirthStrike for Climate	8
Nurturing the Female Body: Notions of Wellbeing in Womb Yoga	7
A’uwẽ (Xavante) Social Constructions of Well-Being in Central Brazil	7
“I’m Just Sitting Now. Wondering.”: Surviving the Wait for Disability	7
Making Sense of Chagas Disease among Mexican Immigrants in California	7
The (In)visibility of Misdiagnosis in Point-of-Care HIV Testing in Zimbabwe	7
Clothing the Clown: Creative Dressing in a Day-center for People with Dementia in the Netherlands	6
Competing Responsibilities and the Distribution of Outcome through Dialogic Practice	6
Deviant Swedes in the Global Covid-19 Media Environment	6
Witchcraft and Cancer in the Narrative of a Portuguese Woman	6
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	6
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa	6

Mahamari Plague: Rats, Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Kumaon and Garhwal, India	6
Correction	5
Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs : Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States	5
Pregnancy and ‘the Other’: Nausea and Accommodation in Manila	5
The Centrality and Value of Women’s Voices	5
Testing Ecology: Breast and Gynecological Cancer Predisposition Tests and the National Healthcare System in Spain	5
Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History	5
Correction	5
Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art	5
“I Think I Have Enough for Now”: Living with COVID-19 Antibodies in the Philippines	5
Tallying Abandonment in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Consequences of Counting in the Afterlife of Aid	4
The “Reservoir” Metaphor in Anti-Venereal-Disease Campaigns in Mid-Twentieth-Century North America	4
Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic	4
The Trouble of Stigma in the Age of Datafication: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Refugee Camp in Jordan	4
Therapeutic Values in Cancer Care	4
Contesting the Reservoir: Guarani-Mbya Criticisms of Zoonosis, Race, and Dirt in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, Brazil	4
Toward Personalized Informed Consent in Cancer Care	4
Good, Bad Religious Leaders: Binary Talk in a Tanzanian Health Project	4
Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds	4
Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland	4
Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark	4
Antibiotics in Catalan Primary Care: Prescription, Use and Remedies for a Crisis of Care	3
Time for a Focus on Climate Change and Health	3
“Everything in India Happens by Jugaad”: Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan	3
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?	3
Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’	3
“Demand Side” Health Insurance in India: The Price of Obfuscation	3
Counter-Demography: Situated Caring for the Aged in Andean Peru	3
Tackling the Unknown: Medical Semiotics of Inflammation and their Legal-Epistemological Boundaries in Brazil	2
Tinkering with Time versus Being under the Spell of Time	2
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies	2
“Backing Weakness:” Conceptualizations of Q’eqchi’ Women’s Vulnerability in Belize	2
Correction	2
Discerning Epidemic Preparedness in Sierra Leone	2
The Weariness of Hoping: Synchronizing Affect While Awaiting Organ Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis in Germany	2
Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children	2
Faith in the Future: Posttraumatic Growth Through Evangelical Christianity for Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	2
Relational Harm: On the Divisive Effects of Global Health Volunteering at a Hospital in Rural Zambia	2
Articulating Interesting Subject Positions for People with Dementia: On Hanging Out in Dutch Nursing Homes	2
Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward	2
Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy	2
“There’s No Constant”: Oxytocin, Cortisol, and Balanced Proportionality in Hormonal Models of Autism	2
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	2
Independent Homebirth Midwives in France: The Persecution of a Profession	2
“Restoring the Sacred Part of Birth”: Doula Care and Cesarean Birth in Switzerland	2
Collective Sensemaking and Healthcare Workers’ Ripple Effect Influencing Vaccine Hesitancy in West Michigan	2
Expanding Medical Semiotics	2
Ethical and Epistemological Implications of Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Researcher-cum-Clinician in Brussels, Belgium	2
Bridging Reproductive and Productive Work: The Case of Surrogates in California	2
Un/Diagnosed: Family Experience of Genomic Diagnoses and the Re-Making of (Rare) Disease in the UK	2

Mistrustful Dependency: Mistrust as Risk Management in an Italian Emergency Department	2
Epistemologies of Living With and Treating Rare Metabolic Disorders	2
All the Other Stuff: Treatment as Prevention and the Embodiment of Undetectability	2
HIV Support Groups and the Chronicities of Everyday Life in eSwatini	2
Covid-19 Riskscapes: Viral Risk Perceptions in the African Great Lakes	2
The (After)life of a Trial: Biocommunicability of an At-Risk Pregnancy	1
Which Ethnography? Whose Ethnography? Medical anthropology’s Epistemic Sensibilities Among Health Ethnographies	1
Pharmaceuticalization and Care Coordination in New York City Outpatient Mental Health	1
Understanding Gut Sensations: Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diagnostic Fluidity in Danish Clinical Practice	1
Intimate Compromise: Reproduction, Piety, and Medicine Among American Orthodox Christians	1
Chagas Disease across Contexts: Scientific Knowledge in a Globalized World	1
Covid-19 and Social Stigma in Hospitals: A New Epidemic of Signification?	1
“Mix or Match?”: Transnational Fertility Industry and White Desirability	1
Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland	1
Challenging NHS Corporate Mentality: Hospital-Management and Bureaucracy in London’s Pandemic	1
Encountering Ethics	1
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda	1
(Mis)Perceiving Apnea and Insomnia in Germany: A Tale of Two Disorders	1
Health Care Delays and Social Suffering Among Indigenous People with Diabetic Foot Complications in Mexico	1
Complimentary Addictions: Pharmaceutical Experimentalism and the Problem of Recovery in Baltimore	1
Framing Kin Resistance to Opioid Overdose in Philadelphia	1
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada	1
Medicalization of Old Age: Experiencing Healthism and Overdiagnosis in a Nordic Welfare State	1
A “Rich People’s Disease”: Migrant Workers and Structural Disability in China	1
Venturing Inside the Body: Transformative Experiences of Pain, Anatomy and Age among Danish Patients Undergoing Awake Arthroscopic Surgery	1
Afterword: Disease Reservoirs and Spatial Imaginaries in the Time of COVID-19	1
Pregnancy As Window of Opportunity? A Danish RCT on Physical Activity During Pregnancy	1
Dangerous Knowledge and Proxy-Reasons: A Kurdish Woman’s Therapeutic Attempts	1
Decision-making and Poor Prognosis: When Death is Silenced by Action	1
Correction	1
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	1
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	1
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	1
Making it Work: Everyday Life and Healthcare with Multiple Chronic Illnesses in Denmark	1
Are There Global Syndemics?	1
Uncertainty Work: Dealing with a Psychiatric Crisis in Two European Community Mental Health Teams	1
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	1
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)	1
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care	1
Deploying Normality: Cancer Survivor Identity and Authenticity in Ritual-like Practice	1
Reliving it All Over Again: Uncanny Temporalities of Injection Drug Use and Hepatitis C Diagnosis in Southwest Virginia, USA	1
In/Visible – A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain	1
Eating and Being Eaten: The Meanings of Hunger among Marind	1