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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia	32
‘Working in a comfort formerly unknown’: medical holism and the radical ambitions behind interwar Bermondsey’s foot clinic	27
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	15
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	14
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	14
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative	13
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	11
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses inTake My HandandSmall Great Things	10
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’sProzac Diary	9
“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
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	8
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain	8
Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background	8
Medical Humanities in Transition	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
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future	8
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novelBlack Hole	7
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD	7
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement inMcClure’s Magazine	7
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits	7
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping	7
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?	6
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine	6
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	6
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices	6

Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care	6
Architecture for mental health	6
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale	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
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	5
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free	5
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women	5
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	5
Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities	5
Guilt, shame and negative emotion in undergraduate medical education: is there a role for Balint groups?	5
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography	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	4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	4
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences	4
Collecting affect: emotion and empathy in World War II photographs and drawings of plastic surgery	4
Sharing in the community of having lost a child	4
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women	4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity	4
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	4
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy	4
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	4
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	3
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context	3
Ethics and medical specimens	3
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field	3
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	3
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel	3
The quality of qualitative research	3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto	3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	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
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	3
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul	3
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement	3
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	3
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry	3
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology	3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change	3
Some thoughts on social prescription and the arts	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
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England	2
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence	2
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood	2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study	2
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure	2

Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	2
Correspondence on “Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health” by Garcia-Iglesiaset al	2
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries	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
Pulling our lens backwards to move forward: an integrated approach to physician distress	2
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork	2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty	2
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’sHeart and Science	2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders	2
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	2
Nations must be defended: public health, enmity and immunity in Katherine Mayo’sMother India	2
Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality	2
Indigenous history in health education	2
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine	2
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	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 reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms	2
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob	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
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole	2
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions	2