OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Anthropology is 2. 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
“Watering-Down” Strict HIV Testing Quotas on Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men Community-Based Organizations	14
Health, Migration, and NTDs: An Anthropological View	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
“Not Like This”: Embodying Blackness and Childhood Cancer in the United States	9
“Back to the Jungle”: Investigating Rats, Grass, Scrub Typhus, and Plantations in Malaya, 1924 – 1974	9
Ringing the Existential Alarm: Exploring BirthStrike for Climate	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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