OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Literature and Medicine is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Forgetting Forwards: Film and the Weirdness of Trauma Research	3
Experimentally Torn	3
Shame, Enchantment, and the "There-ness" of Disability in The Secret Garden	2
Robert, AIDS, and Infectious Sympathy: I Remember When There Was Nothing Medicine Could Do	2
Training through Shame: Affect and Temporality in Medical Education	2
Humane Animals: Moral Treatment and the Non-Human at York Retreat	1
Contributors	1
Shame and Medicine: An Introduction	1
The Curative Power of Trust: Manhood and Medicine in the Fiction of S. Weir Mitchell	1
"The Shock Which the Sound Produced": Bodies, Trauma, and the Audible World in Charles Brocken Brown's Wieland	1
Cholera's Clock: Race, Illness, and Time in the Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe	1
Contributors	1
Paraphrasing Finitude: Seeking Refuge from Death in Thomas Bernhard's Wittgenstein's Nephew	1
A Case for the Literary Eco-Crip: (Re)Producing Disability and Nature in Richard Powers's Bewilderment	0
Contributors	0
Contagious Sympathies in The Last Man	0
The Handoff	0
"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss	0
The Afterlife of Data	0
Afterlife	0
A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's L'Enfant éternel	0
Better Medicine: Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven	0
Something Is Wrong	0
Shame, (In)visibility, and Ill Feelings	0
Designated Humans: Health Care Chaplains, Baseball, and the Beyond	0

Seeing Horror through the Lens of Health: Embodying Dissociative Identity Disorder in The Babadook	0
"A World of Unknowing": Facing Shame in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face	0
Authoring Pain: Fragmentation and Autofiction in Maggie Nelson's Bluets	0
Shame, Guilt, and Medical Error in Ann Patchett's State of Wonder	0
Editing Metaphors	0
Editor's Foreword	0
Are We Ever Really Recovered?	0
Not Remembering	0
The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender, and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives	0
Holes in the Protective Cloak of Palliative Care: Mathieu Simonet's La maternité and Eduardo Berti's An Ideal Presence	0
Contributors	0
The Insult Is in the FAQ	0
Prairie Madness: Mental Illness and Norwegian Immigration to North America in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	0
Towards a Theory of Unexplained Illness: Shame, Pride, and Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory"	0
Stories of Shame, Stories for Shame: Fiction and Self-harm	0
Apprehensions of a Canon: Literature and Medicine 2013–2022	0
Eco-Anxiety and the Intractable Afterlives of Plastic	0
Essaying Pain	0
Guest Editor's Introduction: Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling	0
How to Be Happy in America: Clifford Whittingham Beers's A Mind That Found Itself and the Making of Mental Health	0
Less a Method than a Form: Repairing Shame and Illness in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Kate Zambreno	0
Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean ed. by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati (review)	0
Reading Wharton with Pain: On Rest, Practices, and Care	0
Strange and Tender Fracture: Flash Illness Writing, Chronic Pain, and Alternatives to "Resilience"	0
The Transitivity of Shame: Richard Selzer's "Imelda"	0
Heracles, Hyllus, and the Moral Dilemma of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Sophocles's Trachiniae	0
On Passing the Torch, Carefully	0
Amidst, By, Near, With: Locating Recovery and Forgetting in the Shadow of COVID	0
An Editorial Philosophy of Book Reviews	0
Sensation Fiction, Sexual Health, and Medical Prose: John Milner Fothergill and the Late Victorian Novel	0
Palliative Images in Marion Coutts's The Iceberg and Marco Peano's L'invenzione della madre	0
Editor's Foreword: Remembering Carol Donley	0
Addressing Legion: On What Can Be Known	0
Allegorical Investigations: Autism, Applied Behavioral Analysis, and Medieval Poetry	0
Crime Fiction and the Knowing of Pain	0
Recovering a Literary Legacy: The Life of Delores Phillips	0
Tending to Loose Ends: A Review of The Healer's Burden Through the Lens of Ambiguous Loss	0
Pain Scale	0
Love, Death, and—No Hospital!: Assisted Dying, "Liebestod," and Existential Suffering	0
"Cell Lines" and "Syphilitics": A Critical Investigation into Medical Racism, Rhetorical Dehumanization, and Health Genres	0
Literature and Medicine: The First Decade	0
An Appetite for Injection: Addiction, Gender, and Race in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (1890)	0
Vehement Experiences: The Inscription and Description of Delusion in Nineteenth-century French Asylums	0
What Has Become of Henry Johnson? Disability, Monstrosity, and Personhood in Stephen Crane's "The Monster"	0
Attending Pain, Ethnographically	0
Scapegoat, Superspreader, Slut: Promiscuity and the Myth of Patient Zero in Soderbergh's Contagion (2011)	0
Communicable (Literature and Medicine 2013–2018)	0
Cicely Saunders and the Literary and Cultural Heritage of "Total Pain"	0
Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain	0
Cultural Trauma Studies and Post-traumatic Protests	0

Contributors	0
Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy: The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act by Anna Gasperini (review)	0
Editor's Foreword	0
High Rates	0
The Peculiar Sensation	0
Editor's Farewell	0
The Shame of Being Trans: Transgender Patients and Cisgender Doctors in U.S. Medical Dramas	0
The Pain of Residential Schools in Canada: An Analysis of Silence and Narrative	0
Illness as a Foreign Tongue: Therapeutic Translation in Contemporary Italian Women's Poetry	0
"On These Little Islands, These Things Happen": Leprosy, Race, and Postcolonial Fictions of Chacachacare	0
Introduction: A "Totalizing" View of Palliative Care	0
Contributors	0
Restorative Play: Shared Reading and the Recovery from the Pandemic	0
Self-Care, Autoimmunity, and the Limits of Individualism	0
Ecopathographies and Latinx Literature: Ecocritical Turns in Literature and Medicine and Medical/Health Humanities	0
Diagnosing Desire: Imaginative Experiments with Sexuality and the Nerves	0
Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain by Paolo Savoia (review)	0
2020 and Beyond	0
Editor's Foreword	0
Love in the Time of Polio: Sound, Sickness, and Stigma in Philip Roth's Nemesis	0
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise (review)	0
Everything's Racist MLK Day	0
The Doxa of Dignity: Dying Well with Susan Sontag and Maria Gerhardt	0
Literature and Medicine 2000–2007	0
Remembering Reparations: A Journey Through Structural Violence	0
Editor's Foreword	0
Contributors	0
Foreword to Front Matter: Recovery	0
Afterlife and Life-After	0
Sitting with Death	0
Anguish in Language: Pain as a Biocultural Experience in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric	0
Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by Suman Seth (review)	0
Becoming-Amazon: Femininity, Embodiment, and Sexuality in a Photographic and Digital Breast Cancer Project	0
American Hydropathy in the Age of Exhilaration, 1844–1869	0
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History by Alys Eve Weinbaum (review)	0
The Case of the Peculiar Story: Medical Investigation and the Detective in Edgar Allan Poe and Marguerite Duras	0
"It Is No Small Presumption to Dismember the Image of God": Early Modern Leg Amputation on the Barber-Surgeon's Table and the Dramatist's Page	0
Contagion and the Body Politic: De Quincey on the 1830 Revolution in France	0
Last Narratives: Life Writing Palliative Praxis	0
Pain Rules	0
Visual Satire and Covid-19 in the Comics of Billingsley, Bell, and Obuobi	0
Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield (review)	0
Knowing Black Afterlives	0
Race, Gender, and Genetic Privacy in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me	0
Irrecoverable	0
It's Time to Talk About Abortion: Shame, Fiction, and Legislative Change in Western Europe	0