OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Anthropology is 3. 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
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	14
Ringing the Existential Alarm: Exploring BirthStrike for Climate	14
Are There Global Syndemics?	12
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being	12
Invisible Autistic Infrastructure: Ethnographic Reflections on an Autistic Community	11
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of ‘Fertility Decline’	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
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
Ambiguous Loss and Embodied Grief Related to Mexican Migrant Disappearances	7
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	7
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

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
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
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 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
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
‘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
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