OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Anthropology & Medicine 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Healing myths, yoga styles and social bodies: socio-logics of yoga as a health practice in the socially stratified city of Marseille, France	30
Third age fitness: the connective materiality of a major movement in Brazil	18
Surveillance life and the shaping of ‘genetically at risk’ chronicities in Denmark	17
‘Aquí viene una Veneca más’: Venezuelan migrants and ‘the sexual question’ in Peru	13
When the trial ends: moral experiences of caregiving in a randomized controlled trial in Goa, India	12
Uterine fibroid: a socially malignant illness in Haiti	11
The family doctor: health, kin testing and primary care in Patna, India	10
Isabella’s lion: circular care, kinship, and healing in Brazilian Candomblé	10
Relational chronicities: kinship, care, and ethics of responsibility	9
The insensitivity of ‘sensitive care’: the bureaucracy of pregnancy tissue disposal in England, UK	9
Infertility as inevitable: chronic lifestyles, temporal inevitability and the making of abnormal bodies in India	9
Making life stories visible: an ethnographic study of body mapping in the context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa	8
Biomedical treatment and divine assistance: complementary reproductive itineraries among catholic women users of assisted reproduction technology in Argentina	8
‘I do not feel well here as such. But it has become my home’: abandonment and care in healing shrines	7
Patient patients: middle-aged British Pakistani women and the intuition of limits to care	6
Failing livers, anticipated futures and un/desired transplants	5
Treating risk, risking treatment: experiences of iatrogenesis in the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics	5
Vaccinal chronicity: immunotherapy, primary care, and the temporal remaking of lung cancer’s patienthood in Cuba	5
‘Hawa’ and ‘resistensiya’: local health knowledge and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines	5
Jointly enclosed in-between: the collective meaning of liminality in refugees’ and other migrants’ mental health care	4
HIV prevention and public morality in Pakistan: the secular normativity of development	4
Cultural conformity and cannabis care in the wake of intractable pediatric epilepsy	3
Consciously quarantined: a review of the early anthropological response to the global COVID-19 lockdown	3
Digital technologies and the future of health: aspirations, care and data	3
Iatrogenic trainwrecks and moral injury	3

The iatrogenesis of obstetric racism in Brazil: beyond the body, beyond the clinic	3
Deinstitutionalizing art of the nomadic museum: practicing and theorizing critical art therapy with adolescents	3
Antimicrobial prescribing matters: the irreconcilability in moral ranking systems	3
‘Only parents can understand the problems and needs of children with thalassaemia’: parental activism for thalassaemia care in Northern India	2
‘A tool to help me through the darkness’: suffering and healing among teacher-practitioners of Ashtanga yoga	2
‘Having the card makes us feel worthless’: the negative value of government-funded health insurance in India	2
Governing healthcare: the uses and limits of governmentality in the National Health Service in England	2
Anthropology of new chronicities: illness experiences under the promise of medical innovation as long-term treatment	2
A matter of balance. Positioning of parents’ selves through negotiations of symptoms’ meaning at a pain clinic for children/young people	2
From iatrogenic harm to iatrogenic violence: corruption and the end of medicine	2
Interfacing legitimacy – health and social care integration in Scotland	2
A wellbeing skill: moving attentively in hospital yoga practice	2
Ethnography and medicine: the utility of positivist methods in research	2
Pleasure, womanhood and the desire for reconstructive surgery after female genital cutting in Belgium	2
Feeling social change in the gut: gyāstrik and the problematisation of domestic roles among Newar women in contemporary Nepal	2