OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Humanities 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia	31
‘Working in a comfort formerly unknown’: medical holism and the radical ambitions behind interwar Bermondsey’s foot clinic	27
“I am not alone with tears”: embodying stigma and longing among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV in Tanzania through a collaborative arts-based approach	23
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	14
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	13
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	12
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative	11
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	10
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	9
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’sProzac Diary	9
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses inTake My HandandSmall Great Things	9
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa	8
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain	8
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	7
Talking it better: conversations and normative complexity in healthcare improvement	7
Picturing sanity, in black and white	7
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits	6
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future	6
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement inMcClure’s Magazine	6
Medical Humanities in Transition	6
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices	6
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novelBlack Hole	6
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping	6
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD	6
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?	5

Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography	5
When numbers eclipse narratives: a cultural-political critique of the ‘ethical’ impacts of short-term experiences in global health in Dominican Republic bateyes	5
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free	5
Architecture for mental health	5
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine	5
Guilt, shame and negative emotion in undergraduate medical education: is there a role for Balint groups?	5
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale	5
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care	5
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women	5
War of conscience: antivaccination and the battle for medical freedom during World War I	5
Empirical Bioethics and the Health ‘Brain-Drain’: a qualitative study of the experiential and ethical landscape of compulsory community service for a group of South African doctors	5
‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’sThe Marrow Thievesas Indigenous countergenetic fiction	4
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television	4
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity	4
Collecting affect: emotion and empathy in World War II photographs and drawings of plastic surgery	4
A black dog enters the home: hunger and malnutrition in Malawi	4
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions	4
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	4
Disability, relationship, and the negotiation of loss	4
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy	4
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences	4
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	3
Milk’s Flows: Making and Transmitting Kinship, Health, and Personhood	3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto	3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	3
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology	3
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	3
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	3
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context	3
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis	3
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women	3
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	3
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services	3
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry	3
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole	2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study	2
Pulling our lens backwards to move forward: an integrated approach to physician distress	2
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel	2
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	2
Genetic enhancement, TED talks and the sense of wonder	2
You and Your Baby(home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)	2
The quality of qualitative research	2
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	2
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	2
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries	2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders	2
Lessons from the frontlines: a junior doctor’s experience of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in a resource-limited setting	2
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design	2
Cicely Saunders, ‘Total Pain’ and emotional evidence at the end of life	2

Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change	2
Complexities in interdisciplinary community engagement projects: some reflections and lessons from an applied drama and theatre project in diabetes care	2
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement	2
Nations must be defended: public health, enmity and immunity in Katherine Mayo’sMother India	2
Indigenous history in health education	2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics	2
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence	2
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul	2
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	2
Ethics and medical specimens	2
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	2
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field	2