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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	35
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	29
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative	20
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia	17
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses in Take My Hand and Small Great Things	12
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	11
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	11
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’s Prozac Diary	11
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	10
“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	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	9
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain	8
Medical Humanities in Transition	8
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole	8
Graphic medicine in mental health nursing education: a phenomenological approach to using graphic pathographies as a pedagogical tool	8
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits	8
Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background	8
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future	8
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement in McClure’s Magazine	8
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices	7
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care	7
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	7
Empathy, the scientific clinical gaze and contemporary practice: a critical reflection	7
Architecture for mental health	7
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD	7

Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping	7
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?	6
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale	6
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine	6
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography	6
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free	6
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women	6
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	6
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	6
Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities	5
Sharing in the community of having lost a child	5
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women	5
Return to normal? Remembered futures and the post-pandemic	5
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy	5
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	5
Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research	5
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions	5
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television	5
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	4
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry	4
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis	4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity	4
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology	4
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	4
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	4
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services	4
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
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	3
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change	3
The quality of qualitative research	3
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence	3
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement	3
Indigenous history in health education	3
The home within care: exploring home-like design in paediatric/adolescent palliative care environments	3
You and Your Baby (home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)	3
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design	3
Ethics and medical specimens	3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto	3
Reclaiming care: integrating nursing humanities into Philippine nursing education	3
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	3
Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg’s advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries	3
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole	3
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders	3
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul	3
Some thoughts on social prescription and the arts	3
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	3
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field	3

Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	3
The fox and the hedgehog: a Tolstoyan approach to psychiatry	3
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	3
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries	3
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty	2
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide	2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork	2
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology	2
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
‘The Doctor in Search of Herself’: women doctors’ autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women’s health movement, 1976-1987	2
Decolonising with imperial tools? The paradox of a global bioethics library	2
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine	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
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob	2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics	2
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	2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study	2
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness	2
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms	2
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure	2
‘Future Docs for Abortion Access’: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA	2
Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion	2
Relevance of Georg Grosz’s Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society	2
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare	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
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions	2
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	2
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?	2
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science	2
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood	2
“I have suffered something”: traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain	2
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues	2
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	2
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality	2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England	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
Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality	2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction	2