OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Literature and Medicine is 0. 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
Unmasking Inequality in Our Pandemic Narratives	3
“Medicinable Literature”: Bibliotherapy, Literary Caregiving, and the First World War	2
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror”	2
Shame, Guilt, and Medical Error in Ann Patchett's State of Wonder	1
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka	1
“Books Frighted Them Terribly”: The Perils of Propagating Fear and the Ethics of Writing about Disease in Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year	1
Reading Wharton with Pain: On Rest, Practices, and Care	1
Cranks, Clerks, and Suffragettes: The Vegetarian Restaurant in British Culture and Fiction 1880–1914	1
Pro-slavery Psychiatry and Psychological Costs of Black Women’s Enslavement in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)	1
"On These Little Islands, These Things Happen": Leprosy, Race, and Postcolonial Fictions of Chacachacare	1
Black Bars, White Text	1
Wizards, Masks, and Metagnosis: Is the Pandemic Truly Changing Us?	1
The “Medical Plot Thickens”: Bad Medicine and Good Health in the Contagious Diseases Acts Repeal Campaign	1
"Something I Have Created": Breastfeeding and Motherhood Trauma in Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do	1
The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France by Steven Wilson	0
The Many Fictions of Illness: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Fictionality in Mom’s Cancer	0
When We Speak in Protests	0
Seeing Horror through the Lens of Health: Embodying Dissociative Identity Disorder in The Babadook	0
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective	0
Afterlife and Life-After	0
The Diaries of Besieged Leningraders (1941–1944): Representations of a Mass Famine during World War II	0
Literature and Medicine 2000–2007	0
Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield (review)	0
Pain Rules	0
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski and Toril Moi, and: Reading for Life by Philip Davis	0

Introduction: Hunger and Waste	0
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History by Alys Eve Weinbaum (review)	0
Guest Editor's Introduction: Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling	0
The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender, and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives	0
Editor's Foreword	0
Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean ed. by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati (review)	0
Something Is Wrong	0
Irrecoverable	0
Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain by Paolo Savoia (review)	0
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb	0
Editor's Foreword	0
Essaying Pain	0
Humane Animals: Moral Treatment and the Non-Human at York Retreat	0
No Space for Trash from Aliens	0
2020 and Beyond	0
Eco-Anxiety and the Intractable Afterlives of Plastic	0
Paraphrasing Finitude: Seeking Refuge from Death in Thomas Bernhard's Wittgenstein's Nephew	0
Life Mask	0
Editor's Foreword	0
Better Medicine: Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven	0
Palliative Images in Marion Coutts's The Iceberg and Marco Peano's L'invenzione della madre	0
Contagion and the Body Politic: De Quincey on the 1830 Revolution in France	0
Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine: The State of the Art by Alan Bleakley	0
Are We Ever Really Recovered?	0
The Healer's Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief ed. by Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz	0
Note on Front Matter	0
“Words of Healing”: The Literature of Automatic Writing as Treatment and Prescription in the Victorian Age	0
Editor's Foreword	0
"It Is No Small Presumption to Dismember the Image of God": Early Modern Leg Amputation on the Barber-Surgeon's Table and the Dramatist's Page	0
#LivingWhileBlack	0
The Case of the Peculiar Story: Medical Investigation and the Detective in Edgar Allan Poe and Marguerite Duras	0
Illness as a Foreign Tongue: Therapeutic Translation in Contemporary Italian Women's Poetry	0
Attending Pain, Ethnographically	0
Communicable (Literature and Medicine 2013–2018)	0
“A Charnel House of Uncertainty, Doubt, and Error”: Medical and Narrative Authority in Some Fin-de-Siècle Fictions	0
Love, Death, and—No Hospital!: Assisted Dying, "Liebestod," and Existential Suffering	0
Crime Fiction and the Knowing of Pain	0
Temperance, Feminism, and Phrenology in Lydia Fowler’s Nora: The Lost and Redeemed	0
A Pump Is the Dream of Starting Over, and: Asparagus	0
Last Narratives: Life Writing Palliative Praxis	0
Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain	0
Introduction: A "Totalizing" View of Palliative Care	0
Vehement Experiences: The Inscription and Description of Delusion in Nineteenth-century French Asylums	0
Knowing Black Afterlives	0
Becoming-Amazon: Femininity, Embodiment, and Sexuality in a Photographic and Digital Breast Cancer Project	0
Authoring Pain: Fragmentation and Autofiction in Maggie Nelson's Bluets	0
The Pain of Residential Schools in Canada: An Analysis of Silence and Narrative	0
The Neurobiology of Protest	0
Addiction and the Reinterpretation of Desire in Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy	0
An Editorial Philosophy of Book Reviews	0

Literature and Medicine: The First Decade	0
Strange and Tender Fracture: Flash Illness Writing, Chronic Pain, and Alternatives to "Resilience"	0
Body and Blood: Literary Vampirism at the Intersection of Theological Hunger and Physical Waste	0
A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's L'Enfant éternel	0
Contributors	0
Song of Masking Myself, 46	0
Pain Scale	0
Contributors	0
The Afterlife of Data	0
Cut Guts: "Eight Bites" and Loving Fat	0
Signals in the Anthropocene	0
Amidst, By, Near, With: Locating Recovery and Forgetting in the Shadow of COVID	0
Is Burnout the New Nostalgia?	0
Against Trauma: Boredom and Obsession in David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion	0
Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture ed. by Manon Mathias and Alison M. Moore	0
Things I Find on the Ground	0
Apprehensions of a Canon: Literature and Medicine 2013–2022	0
Contributors	0
High Rates	0
Recovering a Literary Legacy: The Life of Delores Phillips	0
"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss	0
Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction by Kylee-Anne Hingston, and; Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Clare Walker Gore	0
On Caring through Sharing and Reading When Seeing: Attending to Formal Potentialities of Illness Narratives	0
Afterlife	0
Anguish in Language: Pain as a Biocultural Experience in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric	0
Sitting with Death	0
The Rhetoric of Hydropathy and Lay Medical Agency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain	0
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise (review)	0
Prairie Madness: Mental Illness and Norwegian Immigration to North America in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	0
Cicely Saunders and the Literary and Cultural Heritage of "Total Pain"	0
The Peculiar Sensation	0
Holes in the Protective Cloak of Palliative Care: Mathieu Simonet's La maternité and Eduardo Berti's An Ideal Presence	0
Introduction: Alternative Approaches to Health and Wellness in the Nineteenth Century	0
Contributors	0
The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, & Political Economy by Andrew Mangham	0
“You Don’t Knaow What Worry Is”: Animal Apprehension in As I Lay Dying	0
Sensation Fiction, Sexual Health, and Medical Prose: John Milner Fothergill and the Late Victorian Novel	0
Contributors	0
Allegorical Investigations: Autism, Applied Behavioral Analysis, and Medieval Poetry	0
(Un)triggering Anorexia: A Cognitive Literary Analysis of Lia "the Liar" in Wintergirls (2009)	0
Contributors	0
Editor's Foreword: Remembering Carol Donley	0
Experimentally Torn	0
Diagnosing Desire: Imaginative Experiments with Sexuality and the Nerves	0
Illness (In)action: CFS and #TimeForUnrest	0
Foreword to Front Matter: Recovery	0
“These Jests of God”: Arrowsmith and Tropical Medicine’s Racial Ecology	0
Contributors	0