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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	40
Resolving ‘Collective Amnesia’: uncovering disease outbreaks past to shape pandemic futures	28
Impact of pregnancy on women with eating disorder symptoms: a discourse analysis	19
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	17
Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications	13
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	13
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative	13
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	12
“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	12
Tentative traces: an alternative ethics for historical medical photographs?	11
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	11
Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background	11
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’s Prozac Diary	11
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses in Take My Hand and	10
Sounds like cancer: first steps in sonic life writing	10
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa	10
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain	9
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD	8
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	8
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future	8
Empathy, the scientific clinical gaze and contemporary practice: a critical reflection	8
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole	8
Symbolic bodies: analysis of media, cybernetics and the queer-crip patient in The Membranes	7
Medical Humanities in Transition	7
Science fiction and the futures of artificial womb technology: towards a carrier bag theory of design fiction	7

“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement in McClure’s Magazine	7
Graphic medicine in mental health nursing education: a phenomenological approach to using graphic pathographies as a pedagogical tool	7
Twenty-five soundings about child sexual abuse and the arts: considering the opera Festen	7
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits	7
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?	6
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care	6
Architecture for mental health	6
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping	6
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women	6
Spectres of medical AI: uncertainty, trust and the posthuman condition	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
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	5
Narrative explanation and population health: towards a population health humanities	5
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale	5
Waiting objects: letters as containers of time and care	4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	4
Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities	4
Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research	4
‘We have been completely immersed in frustration and trauma’: ambivalence in informal migrant care systems in South Africa	4
Craftivist zine-making with foundation doctors as medical humanities inquiry	4
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television	4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity	4
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free	4
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography	4
Complexities of care: how ‘The Pitt’ illustrates the philosophical tensions embedded in our medical systems	4
Phenomenology of humiliation: feeling injustice in healthcare	4
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	4
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	4
Return to normal? Remembered futures and the post-pandemic	4
Identity scaffolding as a moral need in the caretaking of unaccompanied refugee minors	4
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions	4
Sharing in the community of having lost a child	4
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	3
Some thoughts on social prescription and the arts	3
The fox and the hedgehog: a Tolstoyan approach to psychiatry	3
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	3
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	3
The quality of qualitative research	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
Using metaphors in the care of childhood sexual abuse: a review essay	3
Narrating novelty and reaffirming responsibilisation: epigenetics on YouTube	3
Genre bleed, reproduction and the climate crisis in Louisa Hall’s Reproduction (2023)	3
Reclaiming care: integrating nursing humanities into Philippine nursing education	3
Embodied wisdom: towards acceptable and helpful explanations for functional somatic symptoms	3
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel	3
Zhuangzian philosophy as a guiding principle in medical AI: a path to overcoming bias and paternalism	3
Scenario planning and the medical humanities: envisioning the futures of health and healthcare	3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change	3
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	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
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis	3
Whose values are driving the design of robot swarms for humanitarian aid?	3
You and Your Baby (home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)	3
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement	3
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence	3
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	3
From prerogative instances to histological thinking: a Baconian pedagogy of observation	3
Chiropractic conspiracy theories	3
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul	3
Ethics and medical specimens	3
Drama use in simulation-based trainings for health professions: a scoping review	3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto	3
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry	3
Vaccine decision-making among Serbian parents in the Netherlands: vaccine hesitancy in the ‘Post-Trust’ world	2
Relevance of Georg Grosz’s Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society	2
Gaze that shamed science: Canine defiance and the ethics of experimental physiology	2
Cracking open the eristic rhetoric of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy research or why surgeons should not be so certain about this controversial breast cancer treatment	2
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure	2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics	2
Correspondence on “Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health” by Garcia-Iglesias et al	2
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	2
The home within care: exploring home-like design in paediatric/adolescent palliative care environments	2
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork	2
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England	2
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide	2
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology	2
“I have suffered something”: traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain	2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study	2
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine	2
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science	2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty	2
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness	2
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field	2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	2
Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg’s advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries	2
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob	2
Sacred attention in the clinical gaze: Tagore, Shankaracharya and the spiritual dimensions of empathy	2
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?	2
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood	2
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms	2
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole	2
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare	2
Poetry and well-being: a pilot programme to evaluate the impact of creative writing for patients in short-term and long-term rehabilitation	2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders	2
Indigenous history in health education	2
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design	2
Repulsive and precious: thinking with the tick in Canadian Lyme disease discourse	2
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction	2