| 1 | The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1987 | 1,630 |
| 2 | Syndemics and Public Health: Reconceptualizing Disease in Bio-Social Context | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2003 | 832 |
| 3 | A Systematic Approach for Using Qualitative Methods in Primary Prevention Research | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1990 | 254 |
| 4 | The Body's Insistence on Meaning: Metaphor as Presentation and Representation in Illness Experience | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1992 | 212 |
| 5 | Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The Delegitimation of Illness Experience in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1992 | 210 |
| 6 | Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1990 | 198 |
| 7 | Organ Transplantation as a Transformative Experience: Anthropological Insights into the Restructuring of the Self | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1995 | 195 |
| 8 | On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2008 | 195 |
| 9 | Chromosomes and Communication: The Discourse of Genetic Counseling | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1988 | 191 |
| 10 | “All I Eat Is ARVs”: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2010 | 183 |
| 11 | The Charm of Medicines: Metaphors and Metonyms | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1989 | 182 |
| 12 | "She Drank His Money": Survival Sex and the Problem of Violence in Taverns in Gauteng Province, South Africa | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2002 | 170 |
| 13 | The Tempering of Medical Anthropology: Troubling Natural Categories | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2001 | 165 |
| 14 | Modernization and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2007 | 161 |
| 15 | Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian American Women and Cosmetic Surgery | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1993 | 147 |
| 16 | Struggling over Subjectivity: Debates about the "Self" and Alzheimer's Disease | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1995 | 146 |
| 17 | Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors: A Comparison of Perceptions among Latinas, Anglo Women, and Physicians | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1995 | 145 |
| 18 | Managing an Uncertain Illness Trajectory in Old Age: Patients' and Physicians' Views of Stroke | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1995 | 145 |
| 19 | Female Genital Surgeries: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1999 | 145 |
| 20 | Anthropology and Bioethics | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1992 | 138 |
| 21 | Urban Low-Income African American Men, HIV/AIDS, and Gender Identity | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1997 | 136 |
| 22 | Sterilizing Vaccines or the Politics of the Womb: Retrospective Study of a Rumor in Cameroon | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2000 | 130 |
| 23 | Thick Prescriptions: Toward an Interpretation of Pharmaceutical Sales Practices | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2004 | 130 |
| 24 | In Search of the Good: Narrative Reasoning in Clinical Practice | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1998 | 125 |
| 25 | Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1990 | 121 |
| 26 | Organ Wars: The Battle for Body Parts | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1995 | 121 |
| 27 | Studying Knowledge, Culture, and Behavior in Applied Medical Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1997 | 120 |
| 28 | Cultural Variations in the Placebo Effect: Ulcers, Anxiety, and Blood Pressure | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2000 | 120 |
| 29 | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Urban Brazil | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1987 | 119 |
| 30 | Defining Women's Health: A Dozen Messages from More than 150 Ethnographies | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2006 | 118 |
| 31 | Speaking “Truth” to Illness1: Metaphors, Reification, and a Pedagogy for Patients | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1986 | 116 |
| 32 | What Do Women Want?: Issues of Choice, Control, and Class in Pregnancy and Childbirth | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1994 | 116 |
| 33 | Therapy Management: Concept, Reality, Process | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1987 | 115 |
| 34 | Everybody's Got a Little Mental Illness: Accounts of Illness and Self among People with Severe, Persistent Mental Illnesses | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1991 | 115 |
| 35 | Health Identities and Subjectivities: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2009 | 114 |
| 36 | Intrahousehold Disparities in Women and Men's Experiences of Water Insecurity and Emotional Distress in Urban Bolivia | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2009 | 113 |
| 37 | “Playing the Numbers Game”: Evidence‐based Advocacy and the Technocratic Narrowing of the Safe Motherhood Initiative | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2014 | 113 |
| 38 | Negotiating Relevance: Belief, Knowledge, and Practice in International Health Projects | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1997 | 112 |
| 39 | Stigmatizing a "Normal" Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1995 | 111 |
| 40 | Earliest Phases in the Evolution of Sickness and Healing | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1997 | 111 |
| 41 | Managed Care or Managed Inequality? A Call for Critiques of Market-Based Medicine | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2002 | 111 |
| 42 | Material Proximities and Hotspots: Toward an Anthropology of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2014 | 110 |
| 43 | What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2020 | 110 |
| 44 | Embodiment of Terror: Gendered Violence in Peacetime and Wartime in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1998 | 107 |
| 45 | Racism in U. S. Nursing | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1993 | 106 |
| 46 | Status Incongruity in Samoan Youth: A Biocultural Analysis of Culture Change, Stress, and Immune Function | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2002 | 106 |
| 47 | What Can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health? | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2008 | 106 |
| 48 | "Side Effects": Cultural Constructions and Reinterpretations of Western Pharmaceuticals | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1992 | 103 |
| 49 | The Cultural Construction of AIDS and Its Consequences for Prevention in Botswana | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 1990 | 101 |
| 50 | The Story Catches You and You Fall Down: Tragedy, Ethnography, and ''Cultural Competence" | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2003 | 101 |
