Medical Humanities

Papers
(The median citation count of Medical Humanities 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.)
ArticleCitations
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective33
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients28
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative20
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia15
Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background11
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses in Take My Hand and Small Great Things11
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA10
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain10
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’s Prozac Diary9
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness9
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives9
Graphic medicine in mental health nursing education: a phenomenological approach to using graphic pathographies as a pedagogical tool8
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD8
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa8
Medical Humanities in Transition8
“I am not alone with tears”: embodying stigma and longing among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV in Tanzania through a collaborative arts-based approach8
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future8
Empathy, the scientific clinical gaze and contemporary practice: a critical reflection7
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole7
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping7
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement in McClure’s Magazine7
Architecture for mental health7
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices7
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits7
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism7
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women6
Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities6
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities6
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine6
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?6
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale6
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care6
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography6
Empirical Bioethics and the Health ‘Brain-Drain’: a qualitative study of the experiential and ethical landscape of compulsory community service for a group of South African doctors6
When numbers eclipse narratives: a cultural-political critique of the ‘ethical’ impacts of short-term experiences in global health in Dominican Republic bateyes5
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy5
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television5
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works5
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free5
Sharing in the community of having lost a child5
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences5
Return to normal? Remembered futures and the post-pandemic5
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions5
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women5
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–19954
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry4
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology4
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid4
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots4
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study3
Ethics and medical specimens3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change3
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services3
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design3
You and Your Baby (home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)3
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field3
Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg’s advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries3
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution3
Embodied wisdom: towards acceptable and helpful explanations for functional somatic symptoms3
Some thoughts on social prescription and the arts3
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education3
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa3
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence3
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement3
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR3
The quality of qualitative research3
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing3
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto3
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul3
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel3
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan3
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork2
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood2
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine2
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology2
Indigenous history in health education2
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty2
“I have suffered something”: traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain2
Nations must be defended: public health, enmity and immunity in Katherine Mayo’s Mother India2
Correspondence on “Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health” by Garcia-Iglesias et al2
Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion2
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England2
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions2
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?2
Cracking open the eristic rhetoric of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy research or why surgeons should not be so certain about this controversial breast cancer treatment2
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms2
The home within care: exploring home-like design in paediatric/adolescent palliative care environments2
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh2
Poetry and well-being: a pilot programme to evaluate the impact of creative writing for patients in short-term and long-term rehabilitation2
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide2
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality2
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness2
Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand2
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders2
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries2
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science2
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics2
Relevance of Georg Grosz’s Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society2
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare2
Decolonising with imperial tools? The paradox of a global bioethics library2
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob2
Encoding material female bodies through cosmetic surgeries: a study of cultural economy and the biometric dynamics of Indian Hindi film stars1
Psychiatrists’ experiences of involuntary care in South Africa: dilemmas for practice in challenging contexts1
Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care during COVID-191
Global health wars: a rhetorical review of global health critique1
How failure-based language fails our patients1
Sparing the doctor’s blushes: the use of sexually explicit films for the purpose of Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) in the training of medical practitioners in Britain during the 1970s1
Medical clowning in hospitals: practices, training and perception1
‘The Doctor in Search of Herself’: women doctors’ autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women’s health movement, 1976-19871
Narrative trajectories of disaster response: ethical preparedness from Katrina to COVID-191
Turning good intentions into good outcomes: ethical dilemmas at a student-run clinic and a rubric for reflective action1
Can ‘life writing’ be therapeutic in response to trauma? An exploratory research project in Medical Humanities in South Africa1
End chapter: illness memoirs and narrative humility in shaping the language of palliative care1
Research forum: imaging a post-antimicrobial future1
’Uyun Teta: blindness, sightedness and the stories in-between1
An Editor’s farewell1
The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public health term1
Mental health treatments and the influence of culture: portrayals of hypnotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy in Singaporean television dramas1
Transplantation: changing biotechnologies and imaginaries1
Data discrepancies: Italian ministry reports on abortion, contextualised1
Contact building: emotional exchanges between counsellees and counsellors in the late socialist period in Poland1
They are not all wolves: menstruation, young adult fiction and nuancing the teenage boy1
Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia1
Double life of the pill: towards a cabaret methodology for contraceptive research1
On the consequences of childbirth: obstetrics/gynaecology, comparative anatomy and racial theories in 19th century France and Brazil1
The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-191
Alder Hey’s heart of gold: charity, cardiac surgery and the distortion of paediatric provision in a nationalised health service, 1948–911
Postdigital health practices: new directions in medical humanities1
‘Who Sanitizes the Sanitizer?’: COVID Comics and Sanitisers1
Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police and the literature of forgetting1
“It is difficult for us to treat their pain”. Health professionals’ perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management: a conceptual model1
Rethinking reflexivity, replicability and rigour in qualitative research1
UK media responses to HIV through the lens of COVID-19: a study of multidirectional memory1
Gaze that shamed science: Canine defiance and the ethics of experimental physiology1
Diagnosing Shosha: literature as a lens to view disease and history1
Women’s health: who cares? Reproduction, resistance and reckoning1
Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era1
Written on milk: exploring messages written on donated human-milk bags1
Hospital space interpreted according to Heidegger’s concepts of care and dwelling1
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: a cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance1
Full circle: a patient, a baby and the making of a doctor1
Comparison of drama and standardised patient method to develop humanistic approach in breaking bad news training1
Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: an intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism1
It’s like The Matrix. You have all the numbers, all the information, but no touch, no feeling”: South African teachers’ experiences of teaching oral hard-of-hearing learners (HoHL) during COVI1
Introduction: imagining technologies for disability futures1
How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality1
Contention and collaboration: the tenuous encounter of modern Ayurveda and Western medicine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries1
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us1
Death, desire and disruptors1
“Quite simply they don’t communicate”: a case study of a National Health Service response to staff suicide1
The pandemic body: the lived body during the COVID-19 pandemic1
From comics to care: exploring the education potential of graphic novel in organ transplantation journey1
The future of reproduction in Eve Smith’s Off Target and Kira Peikoff’s Baby X1
Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective1
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions1
Fatherlessness, sperm donors and ‘so what?’ parentage: arguing against the immorality of donor conception through ‘world literature’1
‘It wasn’t what I was suited for’: regretful mothers negotiating their reproductive decision and mother role1
‘Future Docs for Abortion Access’: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA1
(De)troubling transparency: artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical applications1
Perplexity as a provocation: revisiting the role of metaphor as a ‘place holder’ for the potential of COVID-19 antibodies1
Race, class, caste, disability, sterilisation and hysterectomy1
Small hands, big ideas: exploring nurturing care through Beatrice Alemagna’s ‘What is a Child?’1
Making Modern Maternity1
Deaf-led alarm design: technology and disability in home, work and parenthood1
Ethical aspects of medical television: qualitative research methods in the context of China1
Global Health Humanities in transition1
Migration and mental health care in South Africa: the question of language in context1
Finland’s New Children’s Hospital and resurgent charity in a Nordic post-welfare state1
“This will keep me happy for weeks”: care objects, affect and graphic medicine1
Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: the Double Helix Model1
Evoking Brecht’s A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor: developing clinical skills, deepening understanding and promoting action on living and working conditions, or mobilisation for system reform or t1
Through the door: reimagining care and medical humanities1
Health beyond statistics: a capabilitarian revision of Daniels’ theory of just health1
Hybrid performances in sport: Cybathlon spectatorship for critically imagining technologies for disability futures1
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