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Papers

(The median citation count of Medical Anthropology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Sound Baths, Trauma Talk, and the Wellness Paradox in the USA	29
Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art	19
Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History	15
Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs : Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States	14
Testing Ecology: Breast and Gynecological Cancer Predisposition Tests and the National Healthcare System in Spain	14
Autonomy in Austerity Times. Examining Hormonal Contraceptive Implants in Argentina	12
Health, Migration, and NTDs: An Anthropological View	12
Compounded Caregiving: Mexican Women in Migrant-Sending Families During COVID-19	11
Commentary on Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health	10
Ringing the Existential Alarm: Exploring BirthStrike for Climate	10
Making Sense of Chagas Disease among Mexican Immigrants in California	10
“I’m Just Sitting Now. Wondering.”: Surviving the Wait for Disability	10
Clothing the Clown: Creative Dressing in a Day-center for People with Dementia in the Netherlands	9
The Centrality and Value of Women’s Voices	9
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa	8
Witchcraft and Cancer in the Narrative of a Portuguese Woman	7
Deviant Swedes in the Global Covid-19 Media Environment	7
Nurturing the Female Body: Notions of Wellbeing in Womb Yoga	7
Competing Responsibilities and the Distribution of Outcome through Dialogic Practice	7
The (In)visibility of Misdiagnosis in Point-of-Care HIV Testing in Zimbabwe	7
Mahamari Plague: Rats, Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Kumaon and Garhwal, India	6
“Not Like This”: Embodying Blackness and Childhood Cancer in the United States	6
Sensing and the Shadows: Invisible Work in Medical Education in the Netherlands	6
A’uwẽ (Xavante) Social Constructions of Well-Being in Central Brazil	6
Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy	6

“Back to the Jungle”: Investigating Rats, Grass, Scrub Typhus, and Plantations in Malaya, 1924 – 1974	5
On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy	5
Amulets and Cord Blood: Understanding Banking and Regenerative Medicine in Chennai, India	5
“Watering-Down” Strict HIV Testing Quotas on Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men Community-Based Organizations	5
Narratives on Reproductive Justice Among Black Adolescent Girls in Clinical Research in the US	5
Correction	4
Pregnancy and ‘the Other’: Nausea and Accommodation in Manila	4
The “Reservoir” Metaphor in Anti-Venereal-Disease Campaigns in Mid-Twentieth-Century North America	4
Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’	4
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	4
Responsibilities of Risk: Living with Mental Illness During COVID-19	4
“I Think I Have Enough for Now”: Living with COVID-19 Antibodies in the Philippines	4
Contesting the Reservoir: Guarani-Mbya Criticisms of Zoonosis, Race, and Dirt in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, Brazil	4
Correction	4
An introduction to the medical anthropology of care and self care	4
Therapeutic Values in Cancer Care	4
Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic	4
Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward	3
“Backing Weakness:” Conceptualizations of Q’eqchi’ Women’s Vulnerability in Belize	3
Bridging Reproductive and Productive Work: The Case of Surrogates in California	3
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies	3
Ethical and Epistemological Implications of Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Researcher-cum-Clinician in Brussels, Belgium	3
Time for a Focus on Climate Change and Health	3
Un/Diagnosed: Family Experience of Genomic Diagnoses and the Re-Making of (Rare) Disease in the UK	3
Articulating Interesting Subject Positions for People with Dementia: On Hanging Out in Dutch Nursing Homes	3
Covid-19 Riskscapes: Viral Risk Perceptions in the African Great Lakes	3
“Demand Side” Health Insurance in India: The Price of Obfuscation	3
Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy	3
Expanding Medical Semiotics	3
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	3
Correction	2
Tackling the Unknown: Medical Semiotics of Inflammation and their Legal-Epistemological Boundaries in Brazil	2
The Trouble of Stigma in the Age of Datafication: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Refugee Camp in Jordan	2
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?	2
“Everything in India Happens by Jugaad”: Dai-mas in Institutions in Rural Rajasthan	2
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	2
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	2
Independent Homebirth Midwives in France: The Persecution of a Profession	2
The Weariness of Hoping: Synchronizing Affect While Awaiting Organ Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis in Germany	2
Counter-Demography: Situated Caring for the Aged in Andean Peru	2
Tinkering with Time versus Being under the Spell of Time	2
Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark	2
Relational Harm: On the Divisive Effects of Global Health Volunteering at a Hospital in Rural Zambia	2
Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds	2
A “Rich People’s Disease”: Migrant Workers and Structural Disability in China	2
“Restoring the Sacred Part of Birth”: Doula Care and Cesarean Birth in Switzerland	2
Epistemologies of Living With and Treating Rare Metabolic Disorders	2
Discerning Epidemic Preparedness in Sierra Leone	2
Good, Bad Religious Leaders: Binary Talk in a Tanzanian Health Project	2
Tallying Abandonment in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Consequences of Counting in the Afterlife of Aid	2

Mistrustful Dependency: Mistrust as Risk Management in an Italian Emergency Department	2
Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland	2
Toward Personalized Informed Consent in Cancer Care	2
Antibiotics in Catalan Primary Care: Prescription, Use and Remedies for a Crisis of Care	2
Covid-19 and Social Stigma in Hospitals: A New Epidemic of Signification?	2
Un-Knowing the Embryo: The Moral Labor of Doing Preimplantation Genetic Testing in France	2
Making it Work: Everyday Life and Healthcare with Multiple Chronic Illnesses in Denmark	1
Dangerous Knowledge and Proxy-Reasons: A Kurdish Woman’s Therapeutic Attempts	1
Self-Medication in Humans ( Homo sapiens ) and Bonobos ( Pan paniscus ) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	1
Eating and Being Eaten: The Meanings of Hunger among Marind	1
The (After)life of a Trial: Biocommunicability of an At-Risk Pregnancy	1
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)	1
Pharmaceuticalization and Care Coordination in New York City Outpatient Mental Health	1
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda	1
Pregnancy As Window of Opportunity? A Danish RCT on Physical Activity During Pregnancy	1
Generative Hanging Out: Developing Engaged Practices for Health-Related Research ¹	1
Surveillance in Medically Assisted Reproductive Care in France	1
Solicitude and Solitude: Care, Ethics, and the Vulnerability of Front-Line Social Work in the US	1
Sensing Rhabdomyolysis: Building Sensorial Knowledge in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Poland	1
Reliving it All Over Again: Uncanny Temporalities of Injection Drug Use and Hepatitis C Diagnosis in Southwest Virginia, USA	1
Collective Sensemaking and Healthcare Workers’ Ripple Effect Influencing Vaccine Hesitancy in West Michigan	1
Reproductive Coercion and Abortion Care: Care and Surveillance in Abortion Decision-Making in North Carolina, USA	1
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	1
Uncertainty Work: Dealing with a Psychiatric Crisis in Two European Community Mental Health Teams	1
All the Other Stuff: Treatment as Prevention and the Embodiment of Undetectability	1
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	1
Controlling the Diabetic Body? Managing Chronic Illness with Wearable Technology	1
Hallucinations of the “China Dream”: Forbidden Voice, Articulation, and Schizophrenia in China	1
Chagas Disease across Contexts: Scientific Knowledge in a Globalized World	1
Encountering Ethics	1
Correction	1
“The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer”: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana	1
Venturing Inside the Body: Transformative Experiences of Pain, Anatomy and Age among Danish Patients Undergoing Awake Arthroscopic Surgery	1
Decision-making and Poor Prognosis: When Death is Silenced by Action	1
(Mis)Perceiving Apnea and Insomnia in Germany: A Tale of Two Disorders	1
Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children	1
Health Care Delays and Social Suffering Among Indigenous People with Diabetic Foot Complications in Mexico	1
Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland	1
HIV Support Groups and the Chronicities of Everyday Life in eSwatini	1
In/Visible – A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain	1
Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine	1