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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pregnancy, Birth and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	154
How COVID-19 Reveals Structures of Vulnerability	61
“Mix or Match?”: Transnational Fertility Industry and White Desirability	32
Chronic Living in a Communicable World	30
Eating and Being Eaten: The Meanings of Hunger among Marind	26
Connection, Contagion, and COVID-19	22
Deadly Companions: COVID-19 and Diabetes in Mexico	18
COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement	17
Time Discipline and Health/Communicative Labor in Pediatric Primary Care	17
“Making Medicine” withSalvia divinorum: Competing Approaches and Their Implications	16
From Cruddiness to Catastrophe: COVID-19 and Long-term Care in Ontario	15
Necropolitics in the “Compassionate” City: Care/Brutality in San Francisco	14
Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health within Mixed-Status Families	14
Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey	14
Ethics of Neighborly Intimacy among Community Health Activists in Delhi	13
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	13
Epidemics, Xenophobia and Narratives of Propitiousness	13
Invisible Autistic Infrastructure: Ethnographic Reflections on an Autistic Community	11
Food Charity, Shame/ing and the Enactment of Worth	11
Ringing the Existential Alarm: Exploring BirthStrike for Climate	10
“Demand Side” Health Insurance in India: The Price of Obfuscation	9
Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide: Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19	9
Secrets and Silence: Agency of Young Women Managing HIV Disclosure	9
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being	9
Emotion Work during Colorectal Cancer Treatments	8

Self-Medication and the Pharmaceutical System in Cambodia	8
Are There Global Syndemics?	8
Motherhood in Spain: From the “Baby Boom” to “Structural Infertility”	8
Cultures of Nutrition: Classification, Food Policy, and Health	7
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of ‘Fertility Decline’	7
Ambiguous Loss and Embodied Grief Related to Mexican Migrant Disappearances	7
Deploying Normality: Cancer Survivor Identity and Authenticity in Ritual-like Practice	7
Private Services and the Fragmentation of Maternity Care in Poland	7
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	7
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda	6
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	6
The Body in the Mirror: Breast Cancer, Liminality and Borderlands	6
Game-changing? When Biomarker Discovery and Novel Forms of Patient Work Meet	5
Precarious Lives, Precarious Treatments: Making Drug Treatment Work in Northern Myanmar	5
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care	5
Covid-19 Riskscapes: Viral Risk Perceptions in the African Great Lakes	5
Remaking the Technosubject: Kenyan Men Contextualizing HIV Self-Testing Technologies	5
Controversy Over Tongue-Tie: Divisions in the Community of Healthcare Professionals	5
Chagas Disease across Contexts: Scientific Knowledge in a Globalized World	5
Upholding Success: Asian Americans, Egg Freezing, and the Fertility Paradox	5
Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology’s Storytelling	5
Reproduction, Life-course and Vital Conjunctures in the Context of Austerity	5
Chagas Congenital Screening in Switzerland: Processes of Recognition and Knowledge-Sharing	5
How Communicative Approaches Enrich the Study of Care	5
Covid-19 and Social Stigma in Hospitals: A New Epidemic of Signification?	5
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa	5
Adapt and Adjust: Doing UK-Based Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic	5
Emotion as Motivator: Parents, Professionals and Diagnosing Childhood Deafness	4
Antibiotics and the Biopolitics of Sex Work in Zimbabwe	4
Patient Engagement, Chronic Illness, and the Subject of Health Care Reform	4
Kinship, Connective Care, and Disability in Jordan	4
Demographic Anxiety and Abortion: Italian Pro-Life Volunteers’ and Gynecologists’ Perspectives	4
On Living And Moving With Zor: Exploring Racism, Embodiment, And Health In Albania	4
Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark	4
In Attention to Pain: Governance and Bodies in Brazil	4
Surgical Teamwork and the Pragmatic Ethics of the Outcome	4
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participation	4
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	4
Navigating Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Missouri: From Patient Navigation to Social Navigation	3
What Escapes Persuasion: Why Intellectual Disability Troubles ‘Dependence’ in Liberal Societies	3
Therapeutic Values in Cancer Care	3
Caught up in Care: Crafting Moral Subjects of Chronic Fatigue	3
Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services	3
The Percussive Effects of Pandemics and Disaster	3
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?	3
Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health	3
‘Should I Buy Her a Doll’? Motherhood and Turner Syndrome in Poland	3
Medical Anthropology in, of, for and with Africa: Three Hotspots	3
Competing Responsibilities and the Distribution of Outcome through Dialogic Practice	3
“There’s No Constant”: Oxytocin, Cortisol, and Balanced Proportionality in Hormonal Models of Autism	2

Making Sense of Chagas Disease among Mexican Immigrants in California	2
Responsibilities of Risk: Living with Mental Illness During COVID-19	2
Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness	2
Governing Reproduction in Post-revolutionary Tunisia: Contraception, Abortion and Infertility	2
“You Don’t Have a Normal Life”: Coping with Chagas Disease in Los Angeles, California	2
Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland	2
Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’	2
The (In)visibility of Misdiagnosis in Point-of-Care HIV Testing in Zimbabwe	2
The Ecology of Disabled Minds in Urban Uganda	2
“But It’s Not That They Don’t Love Their Girls”: Gender Equality, Reproductive Rights and Sex-Selective Abortion in Britain	2
Vivir En Cronicidad: Terminal Living through Cuban Cancer Vaccines	2
Stem Cell Treatments in India: An Ethnography of Regular Practice	2
Decision-making and Poor Prognosis: When Death is Silenced by Action	2
Deviant Swedes in the Global Covid-19 Media Environment	2
Mahamari Plague: Rats, Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Kumaon and Garhwal, India	2
Pregnancy and the Reproductive Habitus of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women	2
Global Mental Health in South Lebanon: Psychoeducation, Translation, and Culture	2
Leveraging Ambiguity in the Clinic: Mild TBI and Veterans’ Forgetting	2
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	2
Colonial Geographies: Indigenous Access to Primary Care in British Columbia	1
“A Good Guy” Again: Biosociality in a Cancer Self-help Organization	1
Diversifying Medical Anthropology	1
Faith in the Future: Posttraumatic Growth Through Evangelical Christianity for Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	1
The Biomedical Closet? Undetectability among HIV-positive Gay Men in India	1
Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children	1
The Moral Life of Doors in an Open Psychiatric Center	1
Self-medication with Chinese Medicine Online	1
Researching Words without Speaking Them. Language as Care Practice in Multi-Lingual Care Environments in Poland	1
Mentally Fit: Negotiating the Boundaries of Cognitive Disability	1
Journeys, Mobility and Flows: Accessibility Work in Berlin’s Public Transport	1
Nurturing the Female Body: Notions of Wellbeing in Womb Yoga	1
Shifting Priorities and Neoliberal Ideologies in Refugee Health Intervention Design in the US	1
Amulets and Cord Blood: Understanding Banking and Regenerative Medicine in Chennai, India	1
Stewardship and Family Caregiving for People with Dementia in Shanghai	1
Grappling with Diversification	1
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia	1
‘Acute-on-chronic’: Emergency Affect and the One-way Staircase of Pharmaceutical Escalation	1
In Search of ‘Success’: The Politics of Care and Responsibility in a PrEP Demonstration Project	1
Emerging Tissue Economies: Personalized Immunotherapies and Therapeutic Value in Cancer	1
Encountering Ethics	1
The Politics of (Non)endemicity: Chagas Disease in the United States	1
All the Other Stuff: Treatment as Prevention and the Embodiment of Undetectability	1
Careful Practices: Ethics and the Anethical in Canadian Addiction Trajectories	1
“Everything in India Happens by Jugaad”: Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan	1
Being for Others and Material Conditions: The Limits of the “Healthy Lifestyles” Notion for Chilean Women	1
“I Think I Have Enough for Now”: Living with COVID-19 Antibodies in the Philippines	1
The Ambiguity Imperative: “Success” in a Maternal Health Program in Uganda	1
Autonomy in Austerity Times. Examining Hormonal Contraceptive Implants in Argentina	1
Coming Out of Employers’ Homes: Migration, Domestic Work and Health Claims	1
Health, Migration, and NTDs: An Anthropological View	1
Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19	1
Hallucinations of the “China Dream”: Forbidden Voice, Articulation, and Schizophrenia in China	1
Propagating Visions of a Forest Reservoir: A Supposed Zoonotic Outbreak in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana	1
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada	1
Drawing in Ethnography: Seeing and Unseeing Everyday Life with Dementia in Sweden	1
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)	1
Outliers and Rogue Doctors: Manufacturing “Anxiety” Around Older Mothers in India	1
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	1
What Are Your Goals? Goal-Setting Logics in Danish Parkinson’s Rehabilitation	1
Articulating Interesting Subject Positions for People with Dementia: On Hanging Out in Dutch Nursing Homes	1
Care in Ruination: Accessing Children's Critiques of Health Through Playwriting	1
Co-creative Affordance: Rethinking “Beyond Loss” in Dementia through Co-dwelling	1
Navigating Chemical Toxicity in Coca Production in the Colombian Borderlands of Putumayo	1
Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy	1
Experiences as Actors: Labor Pains in Childbirth Care in Germany	1
Training Theories of Mind in Post-conflict Northern Uganda	1
Maneuvering in Silence: Abortion Narratives and Reproductive Life Histories from the Faroe Islands	1
Ragazzi. Migrants and Staff in the Italian Asylum System	1
Generative Hanging Out: Developing Engaged Practices for Health-Related Research ¹	1