OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Medical Humanities 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Virtual volunteers: the importance of restructuring medical volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
The illness-disease dichotomy and the biological-clinical splitting of medicine	13
Cicely Saunders, ‘Total Pain’ and emotional evidence at the end of life	13
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: a cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance	12
In critique of anthropocentrism: a more-than-human ethical framework for antimicrobial resistance	12
Towards a translational medical humanities: introducing the cultural crossings of care	12
Painful metaphors: enactivism and art in qualitative research	11
Talking it better: conversations and normative complexity in healthcare improvement	10
‘From disaster, miracles are wrought’: a narrative analysis of UK media depictions of remote GP consulting in the COVID-19 pandemic using Burke’s pentad	10
Exploring the conceptualisation and study of freebirthing as a historical and social phenomenon: a meta-narrative review of diverse research traditions	10
Eggs, sugar, grated bones: colour-based food preferences in autism, eating disorders, and beyond	9
Suspicious minds: cinematic depiction of distrust during epidemic disease outbreaks	9
A legacy of silence: the intersections of medical sociology and disability studies	9
Theorising the neurotypical gaze: autistic love and relationships inThe Bridge(Bron/Broen 2011–2018)	8
Imagining the postantibiotic future: the visual culture of a global health threat	8
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions	7
‘Capable of being in uncertainties’: applied medical humanities in undergraduate medical education	7
New-media arts-based public engagement projects could reshape the future of the generative biology	7
Gut feelings: depression as an embodied and affective phenomenon in Houellebecq’sSerotonin	7
Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse	6
‘Between-time stories’: waiting, war and the temporalities of care	6
May I have your uterus? The contribution of considering complexities preceding live uterus transplantation	6
Recognition, collaboration and community: science fiction representations of robot carers inRobot & Frank,Big Hero 6andHumans	6
On the need for an ecologically dimensioned medical humanities	6
Teaching with madness/‘mental illness’ autobiographies in postsecondary education: ethical and epistemological implications	6

Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality	6
Delirium in intensive care: violence, loss and humanity	6
‘Dirty pigs’ and the xenotransplantation paradox	5
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	5
Waiting, strange: transplant recipient experience, medical time and queer/crip temporalities	5
Tales of treatment and new perspectives for global health research on antimicrobial resistance	5
Bibliotherapy in practice: a person-centred approach to using books for mental health and dementia in the community	5
Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe	5
A logical development: biomedicine’s fingerprints are on the instrument of close reading in Charonian Narrative Medicine	4
Environmental racialisation and poetics of influence in the postgenomic era: fire, soil, spirit	4
Presentation of the clothed self on the hospital ward: an ethnographic account of perceptual attention and implications for the personhood of people living with dementia	4
“If we can show that we are helping adolescents to understand themselves, their feelings and their needs, then we are doing [a] valuable job”: counselling young people on sexual health in the Brook Ad	4
Biopower under a state of exception: stories of dying and grieving alone during COVID-19 emergency measures	4
Healthcare providers’ engagement with eating disorder recovery narratives: opening to complexity and diversity	4
Women’s voices, emotion and empathy: engaging different publics with ‘everyday’ health histories	4
The transition fromabortiontomiscarriageto describe early pregnancy loss in British medical journals: a prescribed or natural lexical change?	4
Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy	4
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences	4
An intellectual history of suffering in the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 1978–2014	4
Psychedelic injustice: should bioethics tune in to the voices of psychedelic-using communities?	4
Architecture as change-agent? Looking for innovation in contemporary forensic psychiatric hospital design	4
The dying patient: taboo, controversy and missing terms of reference for designers—an architectural perspective	4
Milk’s Flows: Making and Transmitting Kinship, Health, and Personhood	4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	3
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy	3
Pulling our lens backwards to move forward: an integrated approach to physician distress	3
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	3
The rationales for and challenges with employing arts-based health services research (ABHSR): a qualitative systematic review of primary studies	3
(De)troubling transparency: artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical applications	3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	3
Insights from the shadows: exploring deservingness of care in the emergency department and language as a social determinant of health	3
Cultivating the dispositions to connect: an exploration of therapeutic empathy	3
Disability, relationship, and the negotiation of loss	3
Chronicling the chronic: narrating the meaninglessness of chronic pain	3
Complexities in interdisciplinary community engagement projects: some reflections and lessons from an applied drama and theatre project in diabetes care	3
Narrative trajectories of disaster response: ethical preparedness from Katrina to COVID-19	3
Representing young men’s experience of anorexia nervosa: a French-language case study	3
How care holds humanity: the myth of Cura and theories of care	3
A concerning display of medical indifference: reply to ‘Chronic fatigue syndrome and an illness-focused approach to care: controversy, morality and paradox’	3
Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology	3
Reversing the medical humanities	3
Changes in emotions and perceived stress following time spent in an artistically designed multisensory environment	3
Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care during COVID-19	3
Pine fresh: the cultural and medical context of pine scent in relation to health—from the forest to the home	3
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia	3
‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness	3
COVID-19 narratives and layered temporality	2
Health awareness as genre: the exigence of preparedness in cancer awareness campaigns and critical-illness insurance marketing	2
Faecal microbiota transplants: towards a healthy disgust scepticism	2
Out of date: genetics, history and the British novel of the 1990s	2

The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19	2
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine	2
Found in translation: navigating uncertainty to save a child's heart. Paediatric cardiac surgery in Cape Town, South Africa	2
Global Health Humanities in transition	2
The times and spaces of transplantation: queercrip histories as futurities	2
Casualties of the World War II metaphor: women’s reproductive health fighting for narrative inclusion in COVID-19	2
‘Please help me, I am so miserable!’: sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland	2
Unburdening expectation and operatingbetween: architecture in support of palliative care	2
Guilt, shame and negative emotion in undergraduate medical education: is there a role for Balint groups?	2
‘I’m not hep C free’: afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure	2
Hostile environments?Down’s syndrome and genetic screening in contemporary culture	2
Genetic enhancement, TED talks and the sense of wonder	2
Understanding the problem of long-term treatment adherence: a phenomenological framework	2
Evolution in Health and Medical Humanities education: a proposal for accreditation	2
Commentary: Serving the nation, serving the people: echoes of war in the early NHS	2
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	2
Erosion of the ‘ethical’ doctor-patient relationship and the rise of physician burn-out	2
The haunted heart and the Holy Ghost: on retrieval, donation and death	2
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices	2
Reading heredity in racist environments: epigenetic imaginaries in Bessie Head’sThe Cardinals	1
Bubbles and lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand: the language of self-isolation in #Covid19NZ tweets	1
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries	1
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide	1
Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19	1
Conceptualisations of care: why understanding paid care is important	1
Sex, relationships and ‘everyday psychology’ on British magazine problem pages, c. 1960–1990	1
The making of a professional digital caregiver: personalisation and friendliness as practices of humanisation	1
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	1
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England	1
‘Look under the sheets!’ Fighting with the senses in relation to defecation and bodily care in hospitals and care institutions	1
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	1
Commentary on ‘Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa’sThe Memory Policeand the literature of forgetting’ by John Henning	1
Postdigital health practices: new directions in medical humanities	1
Time considered as a helix of infinite possibilities	1
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole	1
‘[Her] hostess … is anxious to have her back when she is cured’: The impact of the evacuation of children on wartime local services, England, 1939–1945	1
Science fiction authors’ perspectives on human genetic engineering	1
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues	1
Ka mura ka muri: understandings of organ donation and transplantation in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale	1
Social health: rethinking the concept through social practice theory and feminist care ethics	1
Temporal technologies of epidemics	1
Biocolonial pregnancies: Louise Erdrich’sFuture Home of the Living God(2017)	1
‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’sThe Marrow Thievesas Indigenous countergenetic fiction	1
Race, class, caste, disability, sterilisation and hysterectomy	1
Collecting affect: emotion and empathy in World War II photographs and drawings of plastic surgery	1
Shame-to-cynicism conversion inThe CitadelandThe House of God	1
The heart in medicine, history and culture	1
Listening, learning, caring: exploring assemblages of, ethics of and pathways to care for avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)	1
Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era	1
Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia	1
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics	1
Forensic rhetoric: COVID-19, the forum and the boundaries of healthcare evidence	1
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	1
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	1
‘Living in a Material World’:Frankensteinand new materialism	1
Broadening and deepening the understanding of agency in dementia	1
‘That is the skin of my brother’: alterity, hybridity and media representations of facial transplantation	1
From blocked flows to suppressed emotions: the life of a trope	1
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	1
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	1
History, pastness and the postgenomic imaginary	1
Hauntological dimensions of heart transplantation: the onto-epistemologies of deceased donation	1
Contact building: emotional exchanges between counsellees and counsellors in the late socialist period in Poland	1
'On the different Species of Phobia’ and ‘On the different Species of Mania’ (1786): from popular furies to mental disorders in America	1
The mediated discourse and voice of euthanasia: the Israeli media as a case study	1
The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome: a response to Sharpe and Greco	1
New poetics of postcolonial relations: global genetic kinship in Zadie Smith’sWhite Teethand Amitav Ghosh’sThe Calcutta Chromosome	1
Global genetic fictions	1
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	1
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction	1
Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa’sThe Memory Policeand the literature of forgetting	1
Sparing the doctor’s blushes: the use of sexually explicit films for the purpose of Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) in the training of medical practitioners in Britain during the 1970s	1