| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain's Mortality Decline c.1850–1914: a Re-interpretation of the Role of Public Health | Social History of Medicine | 1988 | 598 |
| 2 | A Tale of Two Experts: Thalidomide and Political Engagement in the United States and West Germany | Social History of Medicine | 2002 | 416 |
| 3 | Constructing Mothers: Scientific Motherhood in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Social History of Medicine | 1995 | 147 |
| 4 | Getting Out of the Asylum: Understanding the Confinement of the Insane in the Nineteenth Century | Social History of Medicine | 1997 | 142 |
| 5 | What is Colonial about Colonial Medicine? And What has Happened to Imperialism and Health? | Social History of Medicine | 1997 | 134 |
| 6 | 'They Might As Well Brand Us': Working-Class Resistance to Compulsory Vaccination in Victorian England | Social History of Medicine | 2000 | 122 |
| 7 | White Poison? The Social Consequences of Milk Consumption, 1850–1930 | Social History of Medicine | 1992 | 115 |
| 8 | When is mortality risk determined? Historical insights into a current debate | Social History of Medicine | 1993 | 115 |
| 9 | Predisposing Causes and Public Health in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Thought | Social History of Medicine | 1992 | 112 |
| 10 | Graeco-Roman Case Histories and their Influence on Medieval Islamic Clinical Accounts | Social History of Medicine | 1999 | 105 |
| 11 | Practice versus Theory: Tenth-century Case Histories from the Islamic Middle East | Social History of Medicine | 2000 | 105 |
| 12 | Public Health, Nutrition, and the Decline of Mortality: The McKeown Thesis Revisited | Social History of Medicine | 2004 | 103 |
| 13 | 'Women's Little Secrets': Defining the Boundaries of Reproductive Knowledge in Sixteenth-century France: Society for the Social History of Medicine Student Essay Competition Winner, 1999 | Social History of Medicine | 2002 | 100 |
| 14 | Disease and Diversity in History | Social History of Medicine | 2002 | 98 |
| 15 | Reconstructing Clinical Activities: Patient Records in Medical History | Social History of Medicine | 1992 | 92 |
| 16 | The Dutch Famine of 1944-45: Mortality and Morbidity in Past and Present Generations | Social History of Medicine | 1994 | 87 |
| 17 | ‘I would not feel the pain if I were with you’: Catalina Micaela and the Cycle of Pregnancy at the Court of Turin, 1585–1597 | Social History of Medicine | 2015 | 86 |
| 18 | The Early Medieval ‘Medicus’, the Saint—and the Enchanter | Social History of Medicine | 1989 | 85 |
| 19 | Making Global Health History: The Postcolonial Worldliness of Biomedicine | Social History of Medicine | 2014 | 85 |
| 20 | Introduction: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine | Social History of Medicine | 2016 | 85 |
| 21 | Pathology, Danger, and Power: Women's and Physicians' Views of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Weimar Germany | Social History of Medicine | 2000 | 84 |
| 22 | Death in its Season: Class, Environment and the Mortality of Infants in Nineteenth-century Sheffield | Social History of Medicine | 1992 | 82 |
| 23 | The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge | Social History of Medicine | 1995 | 81 |
| 24 | The Health Visitor as Mother's Friend: A Woman's place in public health, 1900–14 | Social History of Medicine | 1988 | 80 |
| 25 | Charms and Prayers in Medieval Medical Theory and Practice | Social History of Medicine | 2003 | 80 |
| 26 | Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests?: Challenges to Medical Confidentiality in Imperial Germany | Social History of Medicine | 2003 | 75 |
| 27 | The Importance of Social Intervention in England's Mortality Decline: The Evidence Reviewed | Social History of Medicine | 1994 | 74 |
| 28 | The Failure of Expertise: Public Health Policy in Britain during the 1918—19 Influenza Epidemic | Social History of Medicine | 1992 | 73 |
| 29 | The Patient's View Meets the Clinical Gaze | Social History of Medicine | 2007 | 71 |
| 30 | Statistics and the Science of Society in Early Victorian Britain; An Intellectual Context for the General Register Office | Social History of Medicine | 1991 | 69 |
| 31 | Dearth and Social Policy in Early Modern England | Social History of Medicine | 1992 | 69 |
| 32 | The British National Health Service 1948-2008: A Review of the Historiography | Social History of Medicine | 2008 | 65 |
| 33 | Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-witch | Social History of Medicine | 1990 | 63 |
| 34 | Practitioners and Saints: Medical Men in Canonization Processes in the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries | Social History of Medicine | 1999 | 62 |
| 35 | Signs and Senses: Diagnosis and Prognosis in Early Medieval Pulse and Urine Texts | Social History of Medicine | 2000 | 62 |
| 36 | Rickets and the Rest: Child-care, Diet and the Infectious Children's Diseases, 1850—1914 | Social History of Medicine | 1992 | 61 |
| 37 | Healing and Curing: Issues in the Social History and Anthropology of Medicine in Africa | Social History of Medicine | 1994 | 61 |
| 38 | ‘Hitting Highs at Rock Bottom’: LSD Treatment for Alcoholism, 1950–1970 | Social History of Medicine | 2006 | 61 |
| 39 | The Old Faith and the New Science: The Nuremberg Code and Human Experimentation Ethics in Britain, 1946-73 | Social History of Medicine | 2002 | 59 |
| 40 | Hospitals, Housing, and Tuberculosis in Glasgow, 1911–51 | Social History of Medicine | 1989 | 57 |
| 41 | On Maternal and Infant Mortality 1900-1960 | Social History of Medicine | 1991 | 57 |
| 42 | Case Notes, Case Histories, and the Patient's Experience of Insanity at Gartnavel Royal Asylum, Glasgow, in the Nineteenth Century | Social History of Medicine | 1998 | 57 |
| 43 | The Early Discovery of Freud by the British General Educated Public, 1912–1919 | Social History of Medicine | 1990 | 56 |
| 44 | Who's Afraid of Susan Sontag? or, the Myths and Metaphors of Cancer Reconsidered | Social History of Medicine | 2001 | 56 |
| 45 | 2002 Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay Therapeutic Infidelities: 'Noncompliance' Enters the Medical Literature, 1955-1975 | Social History of Medicine | 2004 | 56 |
| 46 | The Medicalization of War--The Militarization of Medicine | Social History of Medicine | 1996 | 54 |
| 47 | Body Weight and Self-Control in the United States and Britain since the 1950s | Social History of Medicine | 2001 | 54 |
| 48 | Scientific Triumphalism and Learning from Facts: Bacteriology and the 'Spanish Flu' Challenge of 1918 | Social History of Medicine | 2003 | 54 |
| 49 | ‘Looting’ the Lock Hospital in Colonial Madras during the Famine Years of the 1870s | Social History of Medicine | 2005 | 53 |
| 50 | Responses to Possession and Insanity in the Earlier Byzantine World | Social History of Medicine | 1993 | 52 |
