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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia31
‘Working in a comfort formerly unknown’: medical holism and the radical ambitions behind interwar Bermondsey’s foot clinic25
“I am not alone with tears”: embodying stigma and longing among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV in Tanzania through a collaborative arts-based approach13
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective12
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness12
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA11
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative10
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses inTake My HandandSmall Great Things9
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives9
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients8
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’sProzac Diary8
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa8
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain8
Picturing sanity, in black and white8
Medical Humanities in Transition7
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement inMcClure’s Magazine7
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novelBlack Hole6
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping6
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future6
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits6
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices6
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD6
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism6
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?5
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women5
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale5
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine5
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography5
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 doctors5
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care5
Architecture for mental health5
When numbers eclipse narratives: a cultural-political critique of the ‘ethical’ impacts of short-term experiences in global health in Dominican Republic bateyes5
Guilt, shame and negative emotion in undergraduate medical education: is there a role for Balint groups?5
Disability, relationship, and the negotiation of loss4
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television4
‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’sThe Marrow Thievesas Indigenous countergenetic fiction4
A black dog enters the home: hunger and malnutrition in Malawi4
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free4
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions4
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works4
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities4
Collecting affect: emotion and empathy in World War II photographs and drawings of plastic surgery4
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy4
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry3
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services3
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences3
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–19953
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education3
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots3
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women3
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology3
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis3
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse3
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity3
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change2
Pulling our lens backwards to move forward: an integrated approach to physician distress2
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders2
Cracking open the eristic rhetoric of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy research or why surgeons should not be so certain about this controversial breast cancer treatment2
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole2
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa2
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement2
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence2
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing2
Genetic enhancement, TED talks and the sense of wonder2
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England2
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob2
Nations must be defended: public health, enmity and immunity in Katherine Mayo’sMother India2
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR2
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan2
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel2
The quality of qualitative research2
Ethics and medical specimens2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh2
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study2
Indigenous history in health education2
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field2
You and Your Baby(home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)2
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design2
An Editor’s farewell1
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology1
The pandemic body: the lived body during the COVID-19 pandemic1
‘Future Docs for Abortion Access’: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA1
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood1
Turning good intentions into good outcomes: ethical dilemmas at a student-run clinic and a rubric for reflective action1
Diagnosing Shosha: literature as a lens to view disease and history1
Research forum: imaging a post-antimicrobial future1
Hospital space interpreted according to Heidegger’s concepts of care and dwelling1
Global genetic fictions1
Conceptualisations of care: why understanding paid care is important1
Migration and mental health care in South Africa: the question of language in context1
Written on milk: exploring messages written on donated human-milk bags1
Through the door: reimagining care and medical humanities1
They are not all wolves: menstruation, young adult fiction and nuancing the teenage boy1
“This will keep me happy for weeks”: care objects, affect and graphic medicine1
Double life of the pill: towards a cabaret methodology for contraceptive research1
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues1
On the consequences of childbirth: obstetrics/gynaecology, comparative anatomy and racial theories in 19th century France and Brazil1
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions1
A legacy of silence: the intersections of medical sociology and disability studies1
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world1
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?1
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions1
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide1
Race, class, caste, disability, sterilisation and hysterectomy1
How care holds humanity: the myth of Cura and theories of care1
“I have suffered something”: traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain1
Postdigital health practices: new directions in medical humanities1
Making Modern Maternity1
Deaf-led alarm design: technology and disability in home, work and parenthood1
Psychiatrists’ experiences of involuntary care in South Africa: dilemmas for practice in challenging contexts1
Digital hermeneutics: scaled readings of online depression discourses1
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: a cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance1
‘A Procedure Without a Problem’, or the face transplant that didn’t happen. The Royal Free, the Royal College of Surgeons and the challenge of surgical firsts1
Narrative trajectories of disaster response: ethical preparedness from Katrina to COVID-191
Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: an intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism1
Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era1
“If we can show that we are helping adolescents to understand themselves, their feelings and their needs, then we are doing [a] valuable job”: counselling young people on sexual health in the Brook Ad1
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
Contention and collaboration: the tenuous encounter of modern Ayurveda and Western medicine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries1
‘The Doctor in Search of Herself’: women doctors’ autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women’s health movement, 1976-19871
How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality1
Transplantation: changing biotechnologies and imaginaries1
Global health wars: a rhetorical review of global health critique1
Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality1
Finland’s New Children’s Hospital and resurgent charity in a Nordic post-welfare state1
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure1
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’sHeart and Science1
The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public health term1
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
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms1
Comparison of drama and standardised patient method to develop humanistic approach in breaking bad news training1
Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion1
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness1
Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa’sThe Memory Policeand the literature of forgetting1
Global Health Humanities in transition1
(De)troubling transparency: artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical applications1
The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-191
A mirror in fiction: drawing parallelisms between Camus’sLa Pesteand COVID-191
Mental health treatments and the influence of culture: portrayals of hypnotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy in Singaporean television dramas1
Contact building: emotional exchanges between counsellees and counsellors in the late socialist period in Poland1
Perplexity as a provocation: revisiting the role of metaphor as a ‘place holder’ for the potential of COVID-19 antibodies1
Introduction: imagining technologies for disability futures1
‘It wasn’t what I was suited for’: regretful mothers negotiating their reproductive decision and mother role1
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality1
Data discrepancies: Italian ministry reports on abortion, contextualised1
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine1
Death, desire and disruptors1
Poetry and well-being: a pilot programme to evaluate the impact of creative writing for patients in short-term and long-term rehabilitation1
Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: the Double Helix Model1
Correspondence on “Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health” by Garcia-Iglesiaset al1
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction1
Evoking Brecht’sA 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 tr1
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Health beyond statistics: a capabilitarian revision of Daniels’ theory of just health1
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