OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropology & 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Constituent Covid-19 apocalypses: contagious conspiracism, 5G, and viral vaccinations’	61
Vaccines and vitriol: an anthropological commentary on vaccine hesitancy, decision-making and interventionism among religious minorities	31
Obstetric iatrogenesis in the United States: the spectrum of unintentional harm, disrespect, violence, and abuse	30
Decolonising the medical curriculum: psychiatry faces particular challenges	18
From biosociality to biosolidarity: the looping effects of finding and forming social networks for body-focused repetitive behaviours	17
The iatrogenesis of obstetric racism in Brazil: beyond the body, beyond the clinic	13
Iatrogenic life: veterinary medicine, cruelty, and the politics of culling in India	12
Introduction: medicine’s shadowside: revisiting clinical iatrogenesis	11
The issue is not ‘compliance’: exploring exposure to malaria vector bites through social dynamics in Burkina Faso	10
Cultivating distress: cotton, caste and farmer suicides in India	10
‘Aquí viene una Veneca más’: Venezuelan migrants and ‘the sexual question’ in Peru	9
Surveillance life and the shaping of ‘genetically at risk’ chronicities in Denmark	9
Existential vulnerability: an ethnographic study of everyday lives with diabetes in Vietnam	9
Yoga bodies, yoga minds: contextualising the health discourses and practices of modern postural yoga	8
Pleasure, womanhood and the desire for reconstructive surgery after female genital cutting in Belgium	8
‘Hawa’ and ‘resistensiya’: local health knowledge and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines	7
Anthropology of new chronicities: illness experiences under the promise of medical innovation as long-term treatment	6
The unsanitary other and racism during the pandemic: analysis of purity discourses on social media in India, France and United States of America during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Infertility as inevitable: chronic lifestyles, temporal inevitability and the making of abnormal bodies in India	5
The health imaginary of postural yoga	5
Pulsing bodies and embodying pulse: musical effervescence in a South African HIV/AIDS community outreach program	5
Pentecostal preaching and prophetic politics: when the ‘End’ really does justify the means	4
Consciously quarantined: a review of the early anthropological response to the global COVID-19 lockdown	4
Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India	3
Ethnography and medicine: the utility of positivist methods in research	3

Treating risk, risking treatment: experiences of iatrogenesis in the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics	3
A sheltered place, a sheltered person? Ordering wellbeing in a time between wars in the northern Galilee	3
The nebula of chronicity: dealing with metastatic breast cancer in the UK	3
Apocalyptic futures: morality, health and wellbeing at the end of the world	3
Transnational spirituality and healing: an ethnographic exploration of alternative medicine in Lisbon and Athens	3
Six hours to study: temporality and ignorance in medical education	3
Making life stories visible: an ethnographic study of body mapping in the context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa	3
Bodies in yoga: tangled discourses in Canadian studios	2
Iatrogenic trainwrecks and moral injury	2
Failing livers, anticipated futures and un/desired transplants	2
The woman who chose theterreiro. Lay care and medical landscapes in mental health care in Rio de Janeiro	2
Apophatic love, contagion, and surveillance: Orthodox Christian responses to the global pandemic	2
Governing healthcare: the uses and limits of governmentality in the National Health Service in England	2
The art of being governed: apocalypse, aspirational statecraft, and the health of the Hmong body (politic)	2
‘A factory of therapy’: accountability and the monitoring of psychological therapy in IAPT	2
The double-edged sword of ‘community’ in community-based psychosocial care: reflections on task-shifting in rural Nepal	2
Cultural conformity and cannabis care in the wake of intractable pediatric epilepsy	2
Healing myths, yoga styles and social bodies: socio-logics of yoga as a health practice in the socially stratified city of Marseille, France	2
Illuminating the craft of policy: an anthropological approach to policy ethnography	2
‘COVID containers’ in pandemic mediascapes: discursive economies of health, bodies, and race in North America	2
Negotiating un/sanitary citizenship: the reception of UK government COVID-19 public health messaging by racialised people highly exposed to infection	1
Good enough mothers: practicing nurture and motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico	1
Against settler colonial iatrogenesis: Inuit resistance to treatment in Indian Hospitals in Canada	1
Counter-stories in the way of caste: towards an anti-casteist public health praxis in contemporary India	1
Sorcery and well-being: bodily transformation at Beckeranta	1
Interfacing legitimacy – health and social care integration in Scotland	1
HIV prevention and public morality in Pakistan: the secular normativity of development	1
Politics, law and a lack of sperm: single women and fertility treatment in the Swedish health system	1
Chronicity and the patient’s decision-making work. The case of an advanced cancer patient	1
Compliance and resistance to treatment in an Italian residential Centre for eating disorders	1
‘A tool to help me through the darkness’: suffering and healing among teacher-practitioners of Ashtanga yoga	1
Antimicrobial prescribing matters: the irreconcilability in moral ranking systems	1
Apocalypse without anxiety: the end times for a Caribbean religion	1
Vaccinal chronicity: immunotherapy, primary care, and the temporal remaking of lung cancer’s patienthood in Cuba	1
Care without heart: kinship, chronic illness, and the emotion of care in Delhi	1
The work of reform: a critical examination of health policy	1
Countering the logics of war in global health policy: fake drugs, antimicrobial resistance, and fugitive science	1
A wellbeing skill: moving attentively in hospital yoga practice	1
From iatrogenic harm to iatrogenic violence: corruption and the end of medicine	1
Biomedical treatment and divine assistance: complementary reproductive itineraries among catholic women users of assisted reproduction technology in Argentina	1