OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Anthropology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Value-Scapes of Death: Livestock Veterinarians and the Regulation of Farm Animal Life in the Netherlands	29
Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History	25
Commentary on Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health	15
The Centrality and Value of Women’s Voices	15
Compounded Caregiving: Mexican Women in Migrant-Sending Families During COVID-19	14
On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy	13
Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs : Rethinking Obstetric Harm in the United States	11
Narratives on Reproductive Justice Among Black Adolescent Girls in Clinical Research in the US	9
Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond	8
Good, Bad Religious Leaders: Binary Talk in a Tanzanian Health Project	8
Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic	8
Framing the Labor of Paid Egg Donors in Iran: Marginality, Gendered Care, and Divine Reward	7
Business as Normal?	7
Cripping Collaboration: Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds	7
“Are You Sure It’s Not the Corona Vaccine?” An Ebola Vaccine Trial During COVID-19 in DRC	7
Independent Homebirth Midwives in France: The Persecution of a Profession	7
Health Care Delays and Social Suffering Among Indigenous People with Diabetic Foot Complications in Mexico	6
Sensing Rhabdomyolysis: Building Sensorial Knowledge in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Poland	6
“The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer”: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana	6
Temporalities of Aged Care: Time Scarcity, Care Time and Well-Being in Danish Nursing Homes	6
The Transcendent Patterning of Medical Pluralism: Religion and Medical Practices Among Miao Migrants in China	6
Uncertainty, Temporality, and Negotiations: Experiencing Rare Diseases in Europe	6
Amarrados : How Precariousness Structures Inconsistent Care in a Residential Facility for Peruvian Older Adults	5
Foreword	5
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada	5

Epistemologies of Living With and Treating Rare Metabolic Disorders	5
Afterword: Disease Reservoirs and Spatial Imaginaries in the Time of COVID-19	5
Narrating Digital Access, Trauma, and Disability Through Comics and Image Description in Denmark	5
(Mis)Perceiving Apnea and Insomnia in Germany: A Tale of Two Disorders	5
Surveillance in Medically Assisted Reproductive Care in France	5
Making It Count – Tracing Signs of Consciousness and Potentiality in Severe Brain Injury in Denmark	5
Finding Words for Feeling Bodies: Exploring Drawing Techniques in Dutch Care Practices	4
The Ecological Origins and Consequences of the Rodent Bait Station: From WWII Britain to Contemporary California	4
Medical Anthropology Past, Present, and Future: The State of the Art	4
Contesting the Reservoir: Guarani-Mbya Criticisms of Zoonosis, Race, and Dirt in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, Brazil	4
A “Rich People’s Disease”: Migrant Workers and Structural Disability in China	4
Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland	4
The Multispecies Sociality of Digestion and the Microbiopolitics of the Belly Among Somalis in Ethiopia	4
Rethinking Immunity: An Ethnography of Risk and Migration in Sweden	4
After Antibiotics – Events, Episodes and the Veterinization of UK Livestock	4
Un-Knowing the Embryo: The Moral Labor of Doing Preimplantation Genetic Testing in France	4
Treatment Multiplicity in a Nigerian Psychiatric Hospital	4
“ Yo trato de no llorar ”: Rethinking Obstetric Violence in Costa Rica	4
Sensing and the Shadows: Invisible Work in Medical Education in the Netherlands	4
An Introduction to the Medical Anthropology of Care and Self-Care	4
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies	4
Of Numbers and Moods: Screening for Mental Health Issues in a Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh	4
Pricing the Priceless Surgery: Professional Expertise and the Marketing of High-Risk Surgery in South Korea	3
Correction	3
The State, the Household, the Voluntary Sector: The Pharmaceuticalization and Collectivization of Care in Athens’ Social Clinics of Solidarity	3
Immigrants to Health: Negotiating Liminality and Belonging with Cystic Fibrosis in Germany	3
Emerging Technologies for Preventing the ‘New’ Dementia: Ambiguous Optimism in the Canadian Context	3
Worker-Mothers Between Legitimation and Discipline: Ambiguities in Egg Donation and Surrogacy in Ukraine	3
From Looping to Rippling: Mothers, Diagnostic Expansion, and ADHD in Israeli Families of Diagnosed Children	3
Ordinary Possession: Kinship, Alterity, and the Perils of Selfhood in Pakistan	3
Complimentary Addictions: Pharmaceutical Experimentalism and the Problem of Recovery in Baltimore	3
Beyond Body Parts: The Uterus as a Symbol of Self in the USA	3
Coming-Around: Living with Lung Cancer on the Nether Side of Rehabilitation in Denmark	3
“Blood Has No Colour”: Racialized Donor In/Ex-clusion in the South African National Blood Service	3
IVF Doctors as Moral Pioneers and Moral Guardians in Pronatalist China	2
Physicians in Revolt: An Ethnography of Conflict within the Korean Medicine Community in South Korea	2
Generative Hanging Out: Developing Engaged Practices for Health-Related Research ¹	2
Navigating Challenges with Trust and Creativity: Adolescents’ Experiences of COVID-19 in Iceland	2
The Persistence of Traditional Healing for Mental Illness Among the Korekore People in Rushinga District, Zimbabwe	2
The Socialist Derg Regime and Violence Against Kumpal Ethnomedicine in Ethiopia (1970s–80s)	2
Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers: Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy	2
Waiting for Care and Community Organizing for Serious Health-Related Suffering in Kerala, India	2
Sound Baths, Trauma Talk, and the Wellness Paradox in the USA	2
Reconfiguring Breast Reconstruction in the Post-Cancer Life in Vietnam	2
Crystal Meth, “High Blood,” and Spiritual Manifestations Among Injection Drug-Using Youths in Mufakose, Harare	2
What Are Your Goals? Goal-Setting Logics in Danish Parkinson’s Rehabilitation	2
Care (Mis)match: Arranging “Good” Care Relations for Multilingual Care Work Trainees in Denmark	2
Uterine Vulnerability: A Lived Experience Response to Endometriosis	2
Expanding Medical Semiotics	2
Multispecies Childcare: Child Veganism and the Reimagining of Health, Reproduction, and Gender in Switzerland	2

Governing “Officials’ Heartache”: Aesthetic Attunement, Philosophical Counseling, and Psychomoral Training in China	2
Relational Harm: On the Divisive Effects of Global Health Volunteering at a Hospital in Rural Zambia	2
Correction	2
The Reconfiguration of Stigma: (Mis)understanding the COVID-19 Infection and Contagion in Rural Central China	2
“Not Like This”: Embodying Blackness and Childhood Cancer in the United States	2
The Moral Blind Spots of Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Learning from Britain’s Trial of “Peer-Supported Open Dialogue”	2
Ambivalent Speculations: Learning to Live with Barrett’s Esophagus in the UK Using Facebook Support Groups	2
“It’s Their Little Red Bible”: Exploring Immigration and Immunization Journeys Through Nigerian Mother Relationships with Child Health Records in London	2
Modalities of Enfleshment: Albinism and the Limits of Biosociality in Tanzania	2
Road of No Return: Uncertainty, Ambivalence, and Change in IVF Journeys in China	2
The Gestational Age Ceiling and Abortion Litigation in India	2
“Restoring the Sacred Part of Birth”: Doula Care and Cesarean Birth in Switzerland	2
Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950)	2
Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness	2
“Not Too Different”: Doing Resemblance, Enacting Boundaries in Sperm Donor Matching For/By Dutch Intended Parents	2
Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19	2
Erasing Anthropological Knowledge in American Psychiatric Classification: The Culture Concept for DSM-6	2
Rethinking the Jewish Womb in Israel	2