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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Narratives on Reproductive Justice Among Black Adolescent Girls in Clinical Research in the US	19
Nurturing the Female Body: Notions of Wellbeing in Womb Yoga	18
Compounded Caregiving: Mexican Women in Migrant-Sending Families During COVID-19	16
Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History	15
Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs : Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States	14
On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy	14
Commentary on Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health	12
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	11
The Centrality and Value of Women’s Voices	11
Good, Bad Religious Leaders: Binary Talk in a Tanzanian Health Project	10
Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’	10
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	10
Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward	10
Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic	9
Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds	9
“The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer”: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana	9
Independent Homebirth Midwives in France: The Persecution of a Profession	8
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	8
Epistemologies of Living With and Treating Rare Metabolic Disorders	8
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	7
Covid-19 and Social Stigma in Hospitals: A New Epidemic of Signification?	7
(Mis)Perceiving Apnea and Insomnia in Germany: A Tale of Two Disorders	7
Health Care Delays and Social Suffering Among Indigenous People with Diabetic Foot Complications in Mexico	7
Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children	6
Sensing Rhabdomyolysis: Building Sensorial Knowledge in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Poland	6

Foreword	6
Making It Count – Tracing Signs of Consciousness and Potentiality in Severe Brain Injury in Denmark	5
Surveillance in Medically Assisted Reproductive Care in France	5
Afterword: Disease Reservoirs and Spatial Imaginaries in the Time of COVID-19	5
Chagas Disease across Contexts: Scientific Knowledge in a Globalized World	5
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada	5
The Ecological Origins and Consequences of the Rodent Bait Station: From WWII Britain to Contemporary California	4
Rethinking Immunity: An Ethnography of Risk and Migration in Sweden	4
A’uwẽ (Xavante) Social Constructions of Well-Being in Central Brazil	4
Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art	4
“ Yo trato de no llorar ”: Rethinking Obstetric Violence in Costa Rica	4
Finding Words for Feeling Bodies: Exploring Drawing Techniques in Dutch Care Practices	4
Pregnancy and the Reproductive Habitus of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women	4
Sensing and the Shadows: Invisible Work in Medical Education in the Netherlands	4
An Introduction to the Medical Anthropology of Care and Self-Care	4
Narrating Digital Access, Trauma, and Disability Through Comics and Image Description in Denmark	4
The Multispecies Sociality of Digestion and the Microbiopolitics of the Belly Among Somalis in Ethiopia	4
The Politics of (Non)endemicity: Chagas Disease in the United States	4
“I’m Just Sitting Now. Wondering.”: Surviving the Wait for Disability	4
Deviant Swedes in the Global Covid-19 Media Environment	4
Contesting the Reservoir: Guarani-Mbya Criticisms of Zoonosis, Race, and Dirt in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, Brazil	3
Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland	3
Un-Knowing the Embryo: The Moral Labor of Doing Preimplantation Genetic Testing in France	3
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	3
“Everything in India Happens by Jugaad”: Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan	3
Correction	3
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	3
Tinkering with Time versus Being under the Spell of Time	3
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies	3
“Demand Side” Health Insurance in India: The Price of Obfuscation	3
Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness	2
Witchcraft and Cancer in the Narrative of a Portuguese Woman	2
Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine	2
Framing Kin Resistance to Opioid Overdose in Philadelphia	2
Complimentary Addictions: Pharmaceutical Experimentalism and the Problem of Recovery in Baltimore	2
Pricing the Priceless Surgery: Professional Expertise and the Marketing of High-Risk Surgery in South Korea	2
Ambivalent Speculations: Learning to Live with Barrett’s Esophagus in the UK Using Facebook Support Groups	2
What Are Your Goals? Goal-Setting Logics in Danish Parkinson’s Rehabilitation	2
Reproduction, Life-course and Vital Conjunctures in the Context of Austerity	2
Sound Baths, Trauma Talk, and the Wellness Paradox in the USA	2
“Blood Has No Colour”: Racialized Donor In/Ex-clusion in the South African National Blood Service	2
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia	2
Emerging Technologies for Preventing the ‘New’ Dementia: Ambiguous Optimism in the Canadian Context	2
Care in Ruination: Accessing Children's Critiques of Health Through Playwriting	2
Coming Out of Employers’ Homes: Migration, Domestic Work and Health Claims	2
Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19	2
Reconfiguring Breast Reconstruction in the Post-Cancer Life in Vietnam	2
“Not Like This”: Embodying Blackness and Childhood Cancer in the United States	2
Stewardship and Family Caregiving for People with Dementia in Shanghai	2
Are There Global Syndemics?	2

Correction	2
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participation	2
A “Rich People’s Disease”: Migrant Workers and Structural Disability in China	2
Waiting for Care and Community Organizing for Serious Health-Related Suffering in Kerala, India	2
The Reconfiguration of Stigma: (Mis)understanding the COVID-19 Infection and Contagion in Rural Central China	2