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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	35
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	31
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative	20
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia	17
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses in Take My Hand and Small Great Things	12
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	11
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa	11
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	11
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	10
“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	10
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain	10
Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background	10
Graphic medicine in mental health nursing education: a phenomenological approach to using graphic pathographies as a pedagogical tool	9
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future	9
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’s Prozac Diary	9
Medical Humanities in Transition	9
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	8
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD	8
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices	8
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole	8
Empathy, the scientific clinical gaze and contemporary practice: a critical reflection	8
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping	7
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women	7
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care	7
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?	7

Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits	7
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement in McClure’s Magazine	7
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine	7
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale	6
Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research	6
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography	6
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 doctors	6
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free	6
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	6
Return to normal? Remembered futures and the post-pandemic	6
Architecture for mental health	6
Phenomenology of humiliation: feeling injustice in healthcare	5
Sharing in the community of having lost a child	5
Narrative explanation and population health: towards a population health humanities	5
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	5
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television	5
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions	5
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women	5
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy	5
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	5
Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities	5
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	4
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity	4
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology	4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	4
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	4
Reclaiming care: integrating nursing humanities into Philippine nursing education	3
The home within care: exploring home-like design in paediatric/adolescent palliative care environments	3
Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg’s advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries	3
Embodied wisdom: towards acceptable and helpful explanations for functional somatic symptoms	3
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	3
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design	3
Some thoughts on social prescription and the arts	3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto	3
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry	3
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel	3
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob	3
Indigenous history in health education	3
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field	3
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement	3
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul	3
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	3
The quality of qualitative research	3
You and Your Baby (home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)	3
Narrating novelty and reaffirming responsibilisation: epigenetics on YouTube	3
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries	3
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders	3
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	3
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence	3

The fox and the hedgehog: a Tolstoyan approach to psychiatry	3
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	3
Ethics and medical specimens	3
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services	3
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis	3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change	3
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	2
‘The Doctor in Search of Herself’: women doctors’ autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women’s health movement, 1976-1987	2
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues	2
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	2
“I have suffered something”: traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain	2
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide	2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England	2
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Correspondence on “Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health” by Garcia-Iglesias et al	2
Cracking open the eristic rhetoric of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy research or why surgeons should not be so certain about this controversial breast cancer treatment	2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty	2
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole	2
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	2
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science	2
‘Future Docs for Abortion Access’: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA	2
Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion	2
Decolonising with imperial tools? The paradox of a global bioethics library	2
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms	2
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?	2
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood	2
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions	2
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare	2
Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality	2
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine	2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	2
Relevance of Georg Grosz’s Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society	2
Vaccine decision-making among Serbian parents in the Netherlands: vaccine hesitancy in the ‘Post-Trust’ world	2
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure	2
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality	2
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction	2
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness	2
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology	2
Sacred attention in the clinical gaze: Tagore, Shankaracharya and the spiritual dimensions of empathy	2
Poetry and well-being: a pilot programme to evaluate the impact of creative writing for patients in short-term and long-term rehabilitation	2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork	2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics	2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study	2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand	2