OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization	30
Rest in Pieces: Body Donation in Mid-Twentieth Century America	6
In Sickness and in Health: Expert Discussions on Abortion Indications, Risks, and Patient-Doctor Relationships in Postwar Poland	6
Acupuncture Anesthesia on American Bodies: Communism, Race, and the Cold War in the Making of “Legitimate” Medical Science	5
From “Honeymoon Period” to “Stable Marriage”: The Rise of Management Consultants in British Health Policymaking	5
Radical Visions of American Medicine: Politics and Activism in the History of Medicine	3
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Racism, and Remembrance	3
From Embryotomy to Cesarean: Changes in Obstetric Operatory Techniques in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Urban Brazil	3
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine	3
Entanglements of Eugenics, Public Health, and Academic Medicine: Reckoning with the Life and Legacies of Victor C. Vaughan	3
Preventing Plague, Bringing Balance: Wildlife Protection as Public Health in the Interwar Union of South Africa	3
The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery: The James IV Association of Surgeons	2
Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision	2
Parasites, Pepsin, Pus, and Postulates: Jakob Henle's Essay on Miasma, Contagium, and Miasmatic-Contagious Diseases in Its Original Contexts	2
White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America	2
Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine	2
Embracing Allied Approaches to Public Health: Luxembourg's Industrial Elites and the Rockefeller Mission against Tuberculosis in France after the First World War	2
The Whiteness of Bones: Sceletopoeia and the Human Body in Early Modern Europe	2
A View from Northern Mexico: Abortions before Roe v. Wade	2
The History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Finland: From National Needs to International Arenas, 1900s–1990s	2
Race in Circulation: Blood Banks and Forced Mobilities in the Eastern Mediterranean	1
On All Fours: Transient Laborers, the Threat of Movement, and the Aftermath of Disease	1
Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture by Lorenzo Servitje	1
Doctoring the Black Death, Medieval Europe’s Medical Response to Plague by John Aberth	1
Eradicating Deafness? Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity in Twentieth Century America by Marion Andrea Schmidt	1

"Falling-Out" in Miami and the History of Culture in American Medicine	1
“Doctors for Export”: Medical Migration from Ireland, c.1860–1960 by Greta Jones	1
Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices ed. by Jean-Paul Gaudilliére et al	1
From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime	1
Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution by Sarah L. Swedberg	1
Itineraries and Transformations: John of Burgundy's Plague Treatise	1
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian	1
Beyond Imperturbability: The Nineteenth-Century Medical Casebook as Affective Genre	1
Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union by Mie Nakachi	1
Nursing the Nation: Building the Nurse Labor Force by Jean C. Whelan	1
Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe ed. by J. Andrew Mendelsohn et al.	1
Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health by Sara Ritchey	1
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes by James Doucet-Battle	1
“We Belt the World”: Dr. Leslie E. Keeley’s “Gold Cure” and the Medicalization of Addiction in 1890s London	1
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland by Ruth Rogaski	1
“Sisters of a Darker Race”: African American Graduates of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1867–1925	1
Writing the History of Legal Abortion	1
Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History by Wayne Soon	1
Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare by Sasha Mullally and David Wright	1
A Conjure Woman in Court: African American Conjurers as Health Practitioners and Performative Poisoners in the Post-Emancipation South	1
A Hospital of Her Own: British Nurses, Authority, and the Colonial Space in Interwar Palestine and Cyprus	1
The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920 by Mari K. Webel	1
Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture by Lucas Richert	1
Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy and the Emergence of Ecological Malariology Within and Beyond Imperial Britain	1
A Thread of Life: Mahbub al-Mahmud and Medical Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Morocco	1
American Association for the History of Medicine: Report of the Ninety-Fifth Annual Meeting	1
The Origins of Camphill and the Legacy of the Asylum in Disability History	1
"Visceral Consciousness": The Gut-Brain Axis in Sleep and Sleeplessness in Britain and America, 1850–1914	1
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior	1
Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and "Diseases of Civilization"	1
On Making Us Whole Again	1
Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal by Richard W. Vaudry	1
Dobbs in Historical Context: The View from Indian Country	1
Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History	1
The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease by James L. A. Webb Jr	1
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination by Michael Bennett	1
Aborted Dreams and Contested Labors: The Société Royale de Médecine’s 1786 Survey of Midwives	1
Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children ed. by Elena Conis, Sandra Eder and Aimee Medeiros	1
Introduction: Reimagining Epidemics	1
Souls Under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence by Nicole Archambeau	1
Abortion in Early Modern Italy by John Christopoulos	1
Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production by Claas Kirchhelle	1
Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914–1924 by Mary E. Cox	1
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender by Stef M. Shuster	1
An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile by Melissa Diana Armstrong	1
China and the Globalization of Biomedicine ed. by David Luesink et al.	1
A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era by Michael R. Kronenfeld and Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld	1
“It Gives the Mother the Best Chance for Her Life”: U.S. Catholic Health Care and the Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy	1
Gendered Hormonal Binaries and the Development of the Category of "Hormone-Dependent Cancers," 1940-1980	1
A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine by Judith Farquhar	1

Help Without Hassles: Instituting Community-Based Care for U.S. Veterans after the War in Vietnam	1
Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa by Nitsan Chorev	1
Cold War Resistance: The International Struggle Over Antibiotics by Marc Landas	1
Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother by Marga Vicedo	1
Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine	1
Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics by Jenny Bangham	1
Introduction: Medical Mobilities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa	1
Dreams: Charcot's Last Words on Hysteria	1
“Not Just for Doctors Anymore”: How the Merck Manual Became a Consumer Health “Bible”	1
The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital by Adam J. Davis	1