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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Narratives on Reproductive Justice Among Black Adolescent Girls in Clinical Research in the US	24
Value-Scapes of Death: Livestock Veterinarians and the Regulation of Farm Animal Life in the Netherlands	20
Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs : Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States	18
Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History	18
Commentary on Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health	14
The Centrality and Value of Women’s Voices	13
Compounded Caregiving: Mexican Women in Migrant-Sending Families During COVID-19	12
On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy	11
Economic Rationalities and Notions of ‘Good Cure and Care’	10
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	10
Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds	9
Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic	8
Good, Bad Religious Leaders: Binary Talk in a Tanzanian Health Project	8
(Mis)Perceiving Apnea and Insomnia in Germany: A Tale of Two Disorders	7
Sensing Rhabdomyolysis: Building Sensorial Knowledge in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Poland	7
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	7
Epistemologies of Living With and Treating Rare Metabolic Disorders	7
Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children	7
Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward	7
“The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer”: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana	7
Uncertainty, Temporality, and Negotiations: Experiencing Rare Diseases in Europe	7
Independent Homebirth Midwives in France: The Persecution of a Profession	7
The Transcendent Patterning of Medical Pluralism: Religion and Medical Practices Among Miao Migrants in China	6
Surveillance in Medically Assisted Reproductive Care in France	6
Health Care Delays and Social Suffering Among Indigenous People with Diabetic Foot Complications in Mexico	6

Afterword: Disease Reservoirs and Spatial Imaginaries in the Time of COVID-19	6
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	6
Making It Count – Tracing Signs of Consciousness and Potentiality in Severe Brain Injury in Denmark	5
The Multispecies Sociality of Digestion and the Microbiopolitics of the Belly Among Somalis in Ethiopia	5
Rethinking Immunity: An Ethnography of Risk and Migration in Sweden	5
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada	5
Finding Words for Feeling Bodies: Exploring Drawing Techniques in Dutch Care Practices	5
Sensing and the Shadows: Invisible Work in Medical Education in the Netherlands	5
Foreword	5
Narrating Digital Access, Trauma, and Disability Through Comics and Image Description in Denmark	5
“ Yo trato de no llorar ”: Rethinking Obstetric Violence in Costa Rica	5
The Ecological Origins and Consequences of the Rodent Bait Station: From WWII Britain to Contemporary California	5
“I’m Just Sitting Now. Wondering.”: Surviving the Wait for Disability	4
An Introduction to the Medical Anthropology of Care and Self-Care	4
Un-Knowing the Embryo: The Moral Labor of Doing Preimplantation Genetic Testing in France	4
Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art	4
Correction	4
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies	4
Contesting the Reservoir: Guarani-Mbya Criticisms of Zoonosis, Race, and Dirt in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, Brazil	4
After Antibiotics – Events, Episodes and the Veterinization of UK Livestock	4
Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland	4
Tinkering with Time versus Being under the Spell of Time	4
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	3
Pricing the Priceless Surgery: Professional Expertise and the Marketing of High-Risk Surgery in South Korea	3
Are There Global Syndemics?	3
Stewardship and Family Caregiving for People with Dementia in Shanghai	3
Correction	3
Complimentary Addictions: Pharmaceutical Experimentalism and the Problem of Recovery in Baltimore	3
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participation	3
Emerging Technologies for Preventing the ‘New’ Dementia: Ambiguous Optimism in the Canadian Context	3
Ambivalent Speculations: Learning to Live with Barrett’s Esophagus in the UK Using Facebook Support Groups	3
A “Rich People’s Disease”: Migrant Workers and Structural Disability in China	3
Framing Kin Resistance to Opioid Overdose in Philadelphia	3
Coming Out of Employers’ Homes: Migration, Domestic Work and Health Claims	3
Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine	3
Beyond Body Parts: The Uterus as a Symbol of Self in the USA	3
Correction	2
Adoption of Diabetes Technology in Denmark: Continuous Glucose Monitor as Time-Machine	2
Sound Baths, Trauma Talk, and the Wellness Paradox in the USA	2
Generative Hanging Out: Developing Engaged Practices for Health-Related Research ¹	2
The Moral Blind Spots of Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Learning from Britain’s Trial of “Peer-Supported Open Dialogue”	2
Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy	2
The Socialist Derg Regime and Violence Against Kumpal Ethnomedicine in Ethiopia (1970s–80s)	2
The Reconfiguration of Stigma: (Mis)understanding the COVID-19 Infection and Contagion in Rural Central China	2
Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19	2
Coming-Around: Living with Lung Cancer on the Nether Side of Rehabilitation in Denmark	2
Witchcraft and Cancer in the Narrative of a Portuguese Woman	2
“Restoring the Sacred Part of Birth”: Doula Care and Cesarean Birth in Switzerland	2
Local Pathways of “Serodiscordant Couples”: Unpacking a Global HIV Population Category in Papua New Guinea	2
The Persistence of Traditional Healing for Mental Illness Among the Korekore People in Rushinga District, Zimbabwe	2

Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)	2
Rethinking the Jewish Womb in Israel	2
Covid-19 Riskscapes: Viral Risk Perceptions in the African Great Lakes	2
“Not Like This”: Embodying Blackness and Childhood Cancer in the United States	2
Waiting for Care and Community Organizing for Serious Health-Related Suffering in Kerala, India	2
Immigrants to Health: Negotiating Liminality and Belonging with Cystic Fibrosis in Germany	2
Reconfiguring Breast Reconstruction in the Post-Cancer Life in Vietnam	2
Relational Harm: On the Divisive Effects of Global Health Volunteering at a Hospital in Rural Zambia	2
Road of No Return: Uncertainty, Ambivalence, and Change in IVF Journeys in China	2
Governing “Officials’ Heartache”: Aesthetic Attunement, Philosophical Counseling, and Psychomoral Training in China	2
What Are Your Goals? Goal-Setting Logics in Danish Parkinson’s Rehabilitation	2
Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland	2
Expanding Medical Semiotics	2
“Not Too Different”: Doing Resemblance, Enacting Boundaries in Sperm Donor Matching For/By Dutch Intended Parents	2
Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness	2
Care in Ruination: Accessing Children's Critiques of Health Through Playwriting	2
“Blood Has No Colour”: Racialized Donor In/Ex-clusion in the South African National Blood Service	2
The “Reservoir” Metaphor in Anti-Venereal-Disease Campaigns in Mid-Twentieth-Century North America	1
“As Long as There’s a Glimmer of Hope, I’m Willing to Try”: The Moral Experiences of Parental Pursuit for Autism Therapy in Urban China	1
“More Concerned About Mr. and Mrs. Denmark”: Coping with Pandemic Crisis at the Intersection of Homelessness and Drug Use	1
Negotiating Identities in the COVID-19 Crisis: The Global-Local Dilemma of Medical Epidemiologists in Taiwan	1
Challenging NHS Corporate Mentality: Hospital-Management and Bureaucracy in London’s Pandemic	1
Defining the Limits of Acceptable Parenthood: Reproductive Governance in Brazil	1
‘Should I Buy Her a Doll’? Motherhood and Turner Syndrome in Poland	1
Shifting Priorities and Neoliberal Ideologies in Refugee Health Intervention Design in the US	1
Correction	1
“Only the Immunocompromised and Elderly Will Die”: Precarity and Care in the United States	1
Mahamari Plague: Rats, Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Kumaon and Garhwal, India	1
As Long As it Lasts—Older Substance Users, Brittle Ties and Danish Health Care	1
Navigating Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Missouri: From Patient Navigation to Social Navigation	1
Cleansing and Building in Rastafari Healing in London: Health Sovereignty for a Hostile Environment	1
Therapeutic Values in Cancer Care	1
Antibiotics and the Biopolitics of Sex Work in Zimbabwe	1
Negotiated Categories: The Co-Construction of the Tunisian Population in Human Microbiome Science and Its Historical Entanglements	1
Bureaucracy and Surveillance-Care: The Partograph in Tanzanian Maternity Care	1
Making Sure She Eats Right: Absent-Presence, Articulation, and Surveillance-Care in Senegalese Men’s Maternal Support	1
Partner Exclusion from Childbirth During COVID-19 in Canada: Implications for Theory and Policy	1
iPhone Pregnancies: Self-Testing as Surveillance and Care in the Trying to Conceive Community	1
Signs of Nothing: Negotiations Over Semiotic Indeterminacy in Danish Lung Cancer Diagnostics	1
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of ‘Fertility Decline’	1
“Whatever They Say I Do the Opposite”: Vaccine Resistance in Turkey During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Grappling with Diversification	1
Social Iatrogenesis and Social Risks Among Queer PrEP Users in Dar Es Salaam	1
Pregnancy As Window of Opportunity? A Danish RCT on Physical Activity During Pregnancy	1
“Backing Weakness:” Conceptualizations of Q’eqchi’ Women’s Vulnerability in Belize	1
“Watering-Down” Strict HIV Testing Quotas on Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men Community-Based Organizations	1
Time for a Focus on Climate Change and Health	1
Ethics in Ethnography: Lessons of Amana and Ghayb in the Middle East for Medical Anthropology	1
Adapt and Adjust: Doing UK-Based Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
“But It’s Not That They Don’t Love Their Girls”: Gender Equality, Reproductive Rights and Sex-Selective Abortion in Britain	1
Diagnostic Moments in the Rare Disease Life Narratives of Mitochondrial Disease Patients in Germany	1
Making Good of Crisis: Temporalities of Care in UK Mental Health Services	1
Outliers and Rogue Doctors: Manufacturing “Anxiety” Around Older Mothers in India	1
Turning Towards the Affective: Medical Semiotics of Child Maltreatment in Denmark	1
In/Visible – A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of Egg Donors in Spain	1
We Are Still Here: Living with HIV in the UK	1
Scarecrows: Supernatural Sentinels Against COVID-19 in Cambodia	1
Public Understanding of Gut Health and the Human Microbiome in the USA: An Exploratory Study	1
Sitting in Wait: Everyday Caregiving Practices for People with Dementia in Rural South Africa	1
Recentering Labor in the Egg Donation Bioeconomy: Egg Donors’ (Re)productive Work and Subjectification in Spain	1
Navigating Chemical Toxicity in Coca Production in the Colombian Borderlands of Putumayo	1
Over-looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health	1
Pharmaceuticalization and Care Coordination in New York City Outpatient Mental Health	1
The (In)visibility of Misdiagnosis in Point-of-Care HIV Testing in Zimbabwe	1
Demographic Anxiety and Abortion: Italian Pro-Life Volunteers’ and Gynecologists’ Perspectives	1
(Self)care by Numbers: Self-Monitoring Technology and the Technology of a UK Public Health Trial	1
Correction	1
“Canary in the Coal Mine”: Hope and Emergency in the Management of Measles	1
Mistrustful Dependency: Mistrust as Risk Management in an Italian Emergency Department	1
Precarious Lives, Precarious Treatments: Making Drug Treatment Work in Northern Myanmar	1