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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia	31
‘Working in a comfort formerly unknown’: medical holism and the radical ambitions behind interwar Bermondsey’s foot clinic	25
“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	13
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective	12
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness	12
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA	11
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative	10
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses inTake My HandandSmall Great Things	9
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives	9
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain	8
Picturing sanity, in black and white	8
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients	8
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’sProzac Diary	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
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement inMcClure’s Magazine	7
Medical Humanities in Transition	7
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits	6
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices	6
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD	6
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism	6
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novelBlack Hole	6
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping	6
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future	6
‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine	5
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography	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
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care	5
Architecture for mental health	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
Guilt, shame and negative emotion in undergraduate medical education: is there a role for Balint groups?	5
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 women	5
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale	5
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions	4
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works	4
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities	4
Collecting affect: emotion and empathy in World War II photographs and drawings of plastic surgery	4
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy	4
Disability, relationship, and the negotiation of loss	4
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television	4
‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’sThe Marrow Thievesas Indigenous countergenetic fiction	4
A black dog enters the home: hunger and malnutrition in Malawi	4
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free	4
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots	3
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women	3
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology	3
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis	3
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse	3
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity	3
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid	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
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services	3
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences	3
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995	3
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context	3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education	3
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England	2
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob	2
Nations must be defended: public health, enmity and immunity in Katherine Mayo’sMother India	2
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR	2
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan	2
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel	2
The quality of qualitative research	2
Ethics and medical specimens	2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh	2
Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries	2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty	2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study	2
Indigenous history in health education	2
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field	2
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 design	2
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change	2

Pulling our lens backwards to move forward: an integrated approach to physician distress	2
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution	2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork	2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders	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
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
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement	2
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence	2
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing	2
Genetic enhancement, TED talks and the sense of wonder	2
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul	2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics	2