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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“Mix or Match?”: Transnational Fertility Industry and White Desirability	34
Eating and Being Eaten: The Meanings of Hunger among Marind	29
From Cruddiness to Catastrophe: COVID-19 and Long-term Care in Ontario	19
Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health within Mixed-Status Families	18
Ringing the Existential Alarm: Exploring BirthStrike for Climate	14
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	14
Are There Global Syndemics?	12
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being	12
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of ‘Fertility Decline’	11
Invisible Autistic Infrastructure: Ethnographic Reflections on an Autistic Community	11
“Demand Side” Health Insurance in India: The Price of Obfuscation	10
Deploying Normality: Cancer Survivor Identity and Authenticity in Ritual-like Practice	9
Motherhood in Spain: From the “Baby Boom” to “Structural Infertility”	8
Ambiguous Loss and Embodied Grief Related to Mexican Migrant Disappearances	7
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	7
Cultures of Nutrition: Classification, Food Policy, and Health	7
Chagas Disease across Contexts: Scientific Knowledge in a Globalized World	7
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	7
Private Services and the Fragmentation of Maternity Care in Poland	7
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda	7
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa	7
Controversy Over Tongue-Tie: Divisions in the Community of Healthcare Professionals	6
Chagas Congenital Screening in Switzerland: Processes of Recognition and Knowledge-Sharing	6
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	6
Adapt and Adjust: Doing UK-Based Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic	6

Antibiotics and the Biopolitics of Sex Work in Zimbabwe	6
Reproduction, Life-course and Vital Conjunctures in the Context of Austerity	6
Covid-19 and Social Stigma in Hospitals: A New Epidemic of Signification?	6
Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health	5
Game-changing? When Biomarker Discovery and Novel Forms of Patient Work Meet	5
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participation	5
Caught up in Care: Crafting Moral Subjects of Chronic Fatigue	5
Surgical Teamwork and the Pragmatic Ethics of the Outcome	5
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care	5
Navigating Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Missouri: From Patient Navigation to Social Navigation	5
Remaking the Technosubject: Kenyan Men Contextualizing HIV Self-Testing Technologies	5
Precarious Lives, Precarious Treatments: Making Drug Treatment Work in Northern Myanmar	5
Covid-19 Riskscapes: Viral Risk Perceptions in the African Great Lakes	5
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	4
Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark	4
Pregnancy and the Reproductive Habitus of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women	4
Propagating Visions of a Forest Reservoir: A Supposed Zoonotic Outbreak in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana	4
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	4
Kinship, Connective Care, and Disability in Jordan	4
Navigating Chemical Toxicity in Coca Production in the Colombian Borderlands of Putumayo	4
Decision-making and Poor Prognosis: When Death is Silenced by Action	4
Therapeutic Values in Cancer Care	4
Demographic Anxiety and Abortion: Italian Pro-Life Volunteers’ and Gynecologists’ Perspectives	4
Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services	4
Recentering Labor in the Egg Donation Bioeconomy: Egg Donors’ (Re)productive Work and Subjectification in Spain	3
Governing Reproduction in Post-revolutionary Tunisia: Contraception, Abortion and Infertility	3
Competing Responsibilities and the Distribution of Outcome through Dialogic Practice	3
‘Should I Buy Her a Doll’? Motherhood and Turner Syndrome in Poland	3
Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland	3
Making Sense of Chagas Disease among Mexican Immigrants in California	3
“You Don’t Have a Normal Life”: Coping with Chagas Disease in Los Angeles, California	3
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?	3
Colonial Geographies: Indigenous Access to Primary Care in British Columbia	2
Road of No Return: Uncertainty, Ambivalence, and Change in IVF Journeys in China	2
Mistrustful Dependency: Mistrust as Risk Management in an Italian Emergency Department	2
Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’	2
“I Think I Have Enough for Now”: Living with COVID-19 Antibodies in the Philippines	2
Deviant Swedes in the Global Covid-19 Media Environment	2
What Are Your Goals? Goal-Setting Logics in Danish Parkinson’s Rehabilitation	2
Shifting Priorities and Neoliberal Ideologies in Refugee Health Intervention Design in the US	2
Vivir En Cronicidad: Terminal Living through Cuban Cancer Vaccines	2
Narrating Digital Access, Trauma, and Disability Through Comics and Image Description in Denmark	2
Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children	2
Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds	2
“There’s No Constant”: Oxytocin, Cortisol, and Balanced Proportionality in Hormonal Models of Autism	2
Expanding Medical Semiotics	2
The (In)visibility of Misdiagnosis in Point-of-Care HIV Testing in Zimbabwe	2
“But It’s Not That They Don’t Love Their Girls”: Gender Equality, Reproductive Rights and Sex-Selective Abortion in Britain	2
Stewardship and Family Caregiving for People with Dementia in Shanghai	2
Stem Cell Treatments in India: An Ethnography of Regular Practice	2

Generative Hanging Out: Developing Engaged Practices for Health-Related Research ¹	2
Global Mental Health in South Lebanon: Psychoeducation, Translation, and Culture	2
Encountering Ethics	2
The Trouble of Stigma in the Age of Datafication: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Refugee Camp in Jordan	2
Articulating Interesting Subject Positions for People with Dementia: On Hanging Out in Dutch Nursing Homes	2
Mahamari Plague: Rats, Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Kumaon and Garhwal, India	2
Responsibilities of Risk: Living with Mental Illness During COVID-19	2
Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness	2
The Ambiguity Imperative: “Success” in a Maternal Health Program in Uganda	2
Ragazzi. Migrants and Staff in the Italian Asylum System	2
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia	1
Understanding Gut Sensations: Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diagnostic Fluidity in Danish Clinical Practice	1
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada	1
Independent Homebirth Midwives in France: The Persecution of a Profession	1
All the Other Stuff: Treatment as Prevention and the Embodiment of Undetectability	1
Diversifying Medical Anthropology	1
“Everything in India Happens by Jugaad”: Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan	1
The Biomedical Closet? Undetectability among HIV-positive Gay Men in India	1
Nurturing the Female Body: Notions of Wellbeing in Womb Yoga	1
Careful Practices: Ethics and the Anethical in Canadian Addiction Trajectories	1
Health, Migration, and NTDs: An Anthropological View	1
Being for Others and Material Conditions: The Limits of the “Healthy Lifestyles” Notion for Chilean Women	1
Journeys, Mobility and Flows: Accessibility Work in Berlin’s Public Transport	1
Grappling with Diversification	1
Health Sector Reform in Honduras: Privatization as Institutional Bad Faith	1
Emerging Technologies for Preventing the ‘New’ Dementia: Ambiguous Optimism in the Canadian Context	1
Hallucinations of the “China Dream”: Forbidden Voice, Articulation, and Schizophrenia in China	1
In Search of ‘Success’: The Politics of Care and Responsibility in a PrEP Demonstration Project	1
Reliving it All Over Again: Uncanny Temporalities of Injection Drug Use and Hepatitis C Diagnosis in Southwest Virginia, USA	1
Emerging Tissue Economies: Personalized Immunotherapies and Therapeutic Value in Cancer	1
Mentally Fit: Negotiating the Boundaries of Cognitive Disability	1
The Politics of (Non)endemicity: Chagas Disease in the United States	1
“I’m Just Sitting Now. Wondering.”: Surviving the Wait for Disability	1
Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy	1
Becoming a (Neuro)migrant: Haitian Migration, Translation and Subjectivation in Santiago, Chile	1
Maneuvering in Silence: Abortion Narratives and Reproductive Life Histories from the Faroe Islands	1
Experiences as Actors: Labor Pains in Childbirth Care in Germany	1
Care in Ruination: Accessing Children's Critiques of Health Through Playwriting	1
“More Concerned About Mr. and Mrs. Denmark”: Coping with Pandemic Crisis at the Intersection of Homelessness and Drug Use	1
Foreword	1
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)	1
Faith in the Future: Posttraumatic Growth Through Evangelical Christianity for Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	1
The Moral Life of Doors in an Open Psychiatric Center	1
Tinkering with Time versus Being under the Spell of Time	1
Outliers and Rogue Doctors: Manufacturing “Anxiety” Around Older Mothers in India	1
Clothing the Clown: Creative Dressing in a Day-center for People with Dementia in the Netherlands	1
Drawing in Ethnography: Seeing and Unseeing Everyday Life with Dementia in Sweden	1
Autonomy in Austerity Times. Examining Hormonal Contraceptive Implants in Argentina	1
Amulets and Cord Blood: Understanding Banking and Regenerative Medicine in Chennai, India	1
Coming Out of Employers’ Homes: Migration, Domestic Work and Health Claims	1
Researching Words without Speaking Them. Language as Care Practice in Multi-Lingual Care Environments in Poland	1
Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19	1