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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	33
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	28
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	15
Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background	11
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses in Take My Hand and Small Great Things	11
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain	10
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	10
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	9
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’s Prozac Diary	9
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	9
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future	8
Graphic medicine in mental health nursing education: a phenomenological approach to using graphic pathographies as a pedagogical tool	8
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD	8
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa	8
Medical Humanities in Transition	8
“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	8
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	7
Empathy, the scientific clinical gaze and contemporary practice: a critical reflection	7
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole	7
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping	7
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement in McClure’s Magazine	7
Architecture for mental health	7
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices	7
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits	7

Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care	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
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women	6
Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities	6
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	6
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine	6
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 rationale	6
Return to normal? Remembered futures and the post-pandemic	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
When numbers eclipse narratives: a cultural-political critique of the ‘ethical’ impacts of short-term experiences in global health in Dominican Republic bateyes	5
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy	5
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television	5
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	5
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free	5
Sharing in the community of having lost a child	5
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences	5
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	4
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	4
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry	4
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology	4
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis	4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity	4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	4
The quality of qualitative research	3
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	3
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context	3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto	3
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul	3
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel	3
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	3
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study	3
Ethics and medical specimens	3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change	3
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services	3
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design	3
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 field	3
Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg’s advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries	3
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	3
Embodied wisdom: towards acceptable and helpful explanations for functional somatic symptoms	3
Some thoughts on social prescription and the arts	3
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	3
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	3
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence	3
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement	3
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	3

Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion	2
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science	2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England	2
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions	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
The home within care: exploring home-like design in paediatric/adolescent palliative care environments	2
Decolonising with imperial tools? The paradox of a global bioethics library	2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	2
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood	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
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology	2
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide	2
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	2
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality	2
“I have suffered something”: traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain	2
Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality	2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand	2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders	2
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries	2
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction	2
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole	2
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?	2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics	2
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms	2
Relevance of Georg Grosz’s Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society	2
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure	2
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare	2
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob	2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork	2
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine	2
Indigenous history in health education	2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty	2
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness	2
Nations must be defended: public health, enmity and immunity in Katherine Mayo’s Mother India	2
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues	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
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic	2