OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Humanities 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa	29
Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion	27
Implications of task shifting on power relations in healthcare: the case of clinical officers at public hospitals in Malawi	21
Through the door: reimagining care and medical humanities	13
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	11
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 1970s	11
How care holds humanity: the myth of Cura and theories of care	9
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis	9
The Ableist stare: an interdisciplinary, narrative-driven exploration of staring at disabled bodies	9
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’sProzac Diary	9
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry	8
‘I’m not ok, we are not ok’: an exploration into the embodied precarity experienced by disabled people and their family members living in rural South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
“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 Ad	7
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	7
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia	7
Editor’s note	7
‘Working in a comfort formerly unknown’: medical holism and the radical ambitions behind interwar Bermondsey’s foot clinic	6
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology	6
Gender, race and class at work: enlisting African health labour into the Gold Coast Medical Service, 1860–1957	6
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction	6
They are not all wolves: menstruation, young adult fiction and nuancing the teenage boy	6
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	6
Casualties of the World War II metaphor: women’s reproductive health fighting for narrative inclusion in COVID-19	5
Picturing sanity, in black and white	5
Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: the Double Helix Model	5

Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	5
Data discrepancies: Italian ministry reports on abortion, contextualised	5
Out of date: genetics, history and the British novel of the 1990s	5
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues	5
Contention and collaboration: the tenuous encounter of modern Ayurveda and Western medicine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	5
Body integrity dysphoria and moral responsibility: an interpretation of the scepticism regarding on-demand amputations	4
‘The Doctor in Search of Herself’: women doctors’ autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women’s health movement, 1976-1987	4
Eugenics and genetic screening in television medical dramas	4
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	4
Virtuosic craft or clerical labour: the rise of the electronic health record and challenges to physicians’ professional identity (1950–2022)	4
Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting condition	4
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services	4
“I am not alone with tears”: embodying stigma and longing among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV in Tanzania through a collaborative arts-based approach	4
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality	4
How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality	4
Lanka Mahila Samiti, Mary Rutnam and girls’ education	4
Finding more constructive ways forward in the debate over vaccines with increased disability cultural competence	4
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto	4
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative	3
Interdisciplinary co-teaching as a sustainable model for health humanities pedagogy	3
‘Future Docs for Abortion Access’: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA	3
Listening to face transplant patients and caregivers: how medical humanities approaches redefine surgical ‘success’	3
Diagnosis: undervalued. A psychoanalytic exploration of doctor strikes in the British National Health Service, 2023–2024	3
Forensic rhetoric: COVID-19, the forum and the boundaries of healthcare evidence	3
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	3
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	3
(De)troubling transparency: artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical applications	3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	3
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses inTake My HandandSmall Great Things	3
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	3
Talking it better: conversations and normative complexity in healthcare improvement	3
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context	3
Commentary on ‘Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa’sThe Memory Policeand the literature of forgetting’ by John Henning	2
John Buchan’s race through life, chased by his only foe—illness	2
Transplantation: changing biotechnologies and imaginaries	2
Encoding material female bodies through cosmetic surgeries: a study of cultural economy and the biometric dynamics of Indian Hindi film stars	2
Contributions of Hippocratic medicine and Plato to today’s debate over health, social determinants and the authority of biomedicine	2
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	2
Hostile environments?Down’s syndrome and genetic screening in contemporary culture	2
Environmental racialisation and poetics of influence in the postgenomic era: fire, soil, spirit	2
Pine fresh: the cultural and medical context of pine scent in relation to health—from the forest to the home	2
Written on milk: exploring messages written on donated human-milk bags	2
Global genetic fictions	2
Complexities in interdisciplinary community engagement projects: some reflections and lessons from an applied drama and theatre project in diabetes care	2
Making Modern Maternity	2
Narratives of childhood sexual abuse: healing through music in Ian McEwan’sOn Chesil Beach	2
A mirror in fiction: drawing parallelisms between Camus’sLa Pesteand COVID-19	2
Global Health Humanities in transition	2
Narrative trajectories of disaster response: ethical preparedness from Katrina to COVID-19	2
Mutant metaphors:Frankensteinin the era of COVID-19	2

“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novelBlack Hole	2
“Quite simply they don’t communicate”: a case study of a National Health Service response to staff suicide	2
On the consequences of childbirth: obstetrics/gynaecology, comparative anatomy and racial theories in 19th century France and Brazil	2
Effect of a long-term art-based group therapy with eating disorders	2
Ethics and medical specimens	2
An Editor’s farewell	2
Perplexity as a provocation: revisiting the role of metaphor as a ‘place holder’ for the potential of COVID-19 antibodies	2
Time considered as a helix of infinite possibilities	2