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Papers

(The TQCC of Bulletin of the History of Medicine is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization	13
Epidemic Time: Thinking from the Sickbed	7
Spectacles of Difference: The Racial Scripting of Epidemic Disparities	7
What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective	6
Epidemics Have Lost the Plot	5
Introduction: Reimagining Epidemics	5
In Sickness and in Health: Expert Discussions on Abortion Indications, Risks, and Patient-Doctor Relationships in Postwar Poland	4
Skin and Disease in Early Modern Medicine: Jan Jessen's De cute, et cutaneis affectibus (1601)	4
Acupuncture Anesthesia on American Bodies: Communism, Race, and the Cold War in the Making of “Legitimate” Medical Science	4
Phantom Menace: Dengue and Yellow Fever in Asia	4
The Dramaturgy of Epidemics	4
White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America	3
The Crisis of Crisis: Rethinking Epidemics from Hong Kong	3
Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health	3
Preventing Plague, Bringing Balance: Wildlife Protection as Public Health in the Interwar Union of South Africa	3
Blowing Smoke Up Your Arse: Drowning, Resuscitation, and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Venice	3
Looking Sideways: Locating Epidemics and Erasures in South Asia	3
From Embryotomy to Cesarean: Changes in Obstetric Operatory Techniques in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Urban Brazil	2
Epidemics from the Perspective of Professional Nursing: Beyond Germs, Public Health, and Pot Banging	2
The Gospel of Wealth and the National Health: The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Medicine in Britain's NHS, 1945–60	2
St. Luke's Hospice: Prioritizing Comfort, Not Cure, in the Hospital Setting	2
Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Shadow of the Gas Chambers: Medical Innovation and Human Experimentation in Auschwitz	2
From “Honeymoon Period” to “Stable Marriage”: The Rise of Management Consultants in British Health Policymaking	2
Reconsidering the Dramaturgy	2
No Time for Statistics: Joseph Lister's Antisepsis and Types of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century British Surgery	2

What Historians of Medicine Can Learn from Historians of Capitalism	2
In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt by Khaled Fahmy	1
What Is and Was an Epidemic	1
Los enfermos en la España barroca y el pluralismo médico: espacios, estrategias y actitudes by Carolin Schmitz	1
The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China by Jia-Chen Fu	1
Keeping Vaccination Simple: Building French Immunization Schedules, 1959–1999	1
Notes from the Field: Teaching the History of Epidemics in the Midst of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic	1
Aborted Dreams and Contested Labors: The Société Royale de Médecine’s 1786 Survey of Midwives	1
Migraine: A History by Katherine Foxhall	1
"Visceral Consciousness": The Gut-Brain Axis in Sleep and Sleeplessness in Britain and America, 1850–1914	1
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera by Amir A. Afkhami	1
Materia medica: Savoirs et usages de médicaments aux époques médiéviales et modernes ed. by Philip Rieder and François Zanetti	1
Rest in Pieces: Body Donation in Mid-Twentieth Century America	1
The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America by Peter John Brownlee	1
A Weary Road: Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918 by Mark Osborne Humphries, and: Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain by Tracey Loughran	1
The Unconventional Career of Dr. Muriel Bell by Diana Brown	1
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America by Anthony Ryan Hatch	1
Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia by Tricia Starks	1
On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing by Owen Whooley	1
Embracing Allied Approaches to Public Health: Luxembourg's Industrial Elites and the Rockefeller Mission against Tuberculosis in France after the First World War	1
“Sisters of a Darker Race”: African American Graduates of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1867–1925	1
Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott	1
Itineraries and Transformations: John of Burgundy's Plague Treatise	1
Beyond Imperturbability: The Nineteenth-Century Medical Casebook as Affective Genre	1
Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History ed. by E. Thomas Ewing and Katherine Randall	1
Help Without Hassles: Instituting Community-Based Care for U.S. Veterans after the War in Vietnam	1
Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918–19 by Ida Milne	1
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett	1
The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates ed. by Peter E. Pormann	1
From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 by Anne E. Parsons	1
Epidemics And Disability	1
Introduction: Reimagining Epidemics	1
Dead or Alive? Stillbirth Registration, Premature Babies, and the Definition of Life in England and Wales, 1836–1960	1
“Not Just for Doctors Anymore”: How the Merck Manual Became a Consumer Health “Bible”	1
Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World: A Social and Cultural History by Christian Laes	1
“We Belt the World”: Dr. Leslie E. Keeley’s “Gold Cure” and the Medicalization of Addiction in 1890s London	1
The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War by Heinrich Hartmann	1
A Trilingual Medical Compendium from Medieval Oxford, Now in the Collection of the State Library Victoria	1
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories ed. by Abigail Woods et al.	1
Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia ed. by C. Hans Pols Michele Thompson, and John Harley Warner	1
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine	1
The Neglected Role of Buddhism in the Development of Medicine in Late Imperial China Viewed through the Life and Work of Yu Chang 喻昌 (1585–1664)	1
The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery: The James IV Association of Surgeons	1
Proteins, Pathologies, and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century ed. by David Gentilcore and Matthew Smith	1