OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Anthropology is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pregnancy, Birth and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States	154
How COVID-19 Reveals Structures of Vulnerability	61
“Mix or Match?”: Transnational Fertility Industry and White Desirability	32
Chronic Living in a Communicable World	30
Eating and Being Eaten: The Meanings of Hunger among Marind	26
Connection, Contagion, and COVID-19	22
Deadly Companions: COVID-19 and Diabetes in Mexico	18
COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement	17
Time Discipline and Health/Communicative Labor in Pediatric Primary Care	17
“Making Medicine” withSalvia divinorum: Competing Approaches and Their Implications	16
From Cruddiness to Catastrophe: COVID-19 and Long-term Care in Ontario	15
Familial Vulnerability: Legal Status and Mental Health within Mixed-Status Families	14
Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey	14
Necropolitics in the “Compassionate” City: Care/Brutality in San Francisco	14
The Uncertain Presence: Experiences of Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer	13
Epidemics, Xenophobia and Narratives of Propitiousness	13
Ethics of Neighborly Intimacy among Community Health Activists in Delhi	13
Invisible Autistic Infrastructure: Ethnographic Reflections on an Autistic Community	11
Food Charity, Shame/ing and the Enactment of Worth	11
Ringing the Existential Alarm: Exploring BirthStrike for Climate	10
“Demand Side” Health Insurance in India: The Price of Obfuscation	9
Beyond the Linguistic/Medical Anthropology Divide: Retooling Anthropology to Face COVID-19	9
Secrets and Silence: Agency of Young Women Managing HIV Disclosure	9
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being	9
Emotion Work during Colorectal Cancer Treatments	8

Self-Medication and the Pharmaceutical System in Cambodia	8
Are There Global Syndemics?	8
Motherhood in Spain: From the “Baby Boom” to “Structural Infertility”	8
Cultures of Nutrition: Classification, Food Policy, and Health	7
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of ‘Fertility Decline’	7
Ambiguous Loss and Embodied Grief Related to Mexican Migrant Disappearances	7
Deploying Normality: Cancer Survivor Identity and Authenticity in Ritual-like Practice	7
Private Services and the Fragmentation of Maternity Care in Poland	7
The Allure of Scapegoating Return Migrants during a Pandemic	7
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda	6
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	6
The Body in the Mirror: Breast Cancer, Liminality and Borderlands	6
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care	5
Covid-19 Riskscapes: Viral Risk Perceptions in the African Great Lakes	5
Remaking the Technosubject: Kenyan Men Contextualizing HIV Self-Testing Technologies	5
Controversy Over Tongue-Tie: Divisions in the Community of Healthcare Professionals	5
Chagas Disease across Contexts: Scientific Knowledge in a Globalized World	5
Upholding Success: Asian Americans, Egg Freezing, and the Fertility Paradox	5
Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology’s Storytelling	5
Reproduction, Life-course and Vital Conjunctures in the Context of Austerity	5
Chagas Congenital Screening in Switzerland: Processes of Recognition and Knowledge-Sharing	5
How Communicative Approaches Enrich the Study of Care	5
Covid-19 and Social Stigma in Hospitals: A New Epidemic of Signification?	5
Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa	5
Adapt and Adjust: Doing UK-Based Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic	5
Game-changing? When Biomarker Discovery and Novel Forms of Patient Work Meet	5
Precarious Lives, Precarious Treatments: Making Drug Treatment Work in Northern Myanmar	5
Emotion as Motivator: Parents, Professionals and Diagnosing Childhood Deafness	4
Antibiotics and the Biopolitics of Sex Work in Zimbabwe	4
Patient Engagement, Chronic Illness, and the Subject of Health Care Reform	4
Kinship, Connective Care, and Disability in Jordan	4
Demographic Anxiety and Abortion: Italian Pro-Life Volunteers’ and Gynecologists’ Perspectives	4
On Living And Moving With Zor: Exploring Racism, Embodiment, And Health In Albania	4
Subject in the Making: Technologies of the Self and Aspirations for a Good Life in Contemporary Denmark	4
In Attention to Pain: Governance and Bodies in Brazil	4
Surgical Teamwork and the Pragmatic Ethics of the Outcome	4
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participation	4
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	4