| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Disease and illness Distinctions between professional and popular ideas of sickness | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1977 | 581 |
| 2 | Idioms of distress: Alternatives in the expression of psychosocial distress: A case study from South India | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1981 | 571 |
| 3 | Neurasthenia and depression: A study of somatization and culture in China | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1982 | 566 |
| 4 | The heart of what's the matter The semantics of illness in Iran | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1977 | 551 |
| 5 | John Henryism and the health of African-Americans | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1994 | 486 |
| 6 | American oncology and the discourse on hope | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1990 | 412 |
| 7 | Suffering and its professional transformation: toward an ethnography of interpersonal experience | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1991 | 366 |
| 8 | The impact of culture on the cognitive structure of illness | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1987 | 273 |
| 9 | ?Feed a cold, starve a fever? ? folk models of infection in an english suburban community, and their relation to medical treatment | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1978 | 255 |
| 10 | The health seeking process: An approach to the natural history of illness | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1977 | 248 |
| 11 | Idioms of Distress Revisited | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2010 | 246 |
| 12 | The War on Drugs That Wasn’t: Wasted Whiteness, “Dirty Doctors,” and Race in Media Coverage of Prescription Opioid Misuse | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2016 | 228 |
| 13 | Television, Disordered Eating, and Young Women in Fiji: Negotiating Body Image and Identity during Rapid Social Change | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2004 | 226 |
| 14 | Stressful life events preceding the acute onset of schizophrenia: A cross-national study from the World Health Organization | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1987 | 213 |
| 15 | Dissociative Experience and Cultural Neuroscience: Narrative, Metaphor and Mechanism | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2008 | 209 |
| 16 | Hyper-tension: A folk illness with a medical name | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1980 | 189 |
| 17 | Obesity as a culture-bound syndrome | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1982 | 188 |
| 18 | Cultural significance and physiological manifestations of menopause a biocultural analysis | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1986 | 184 |
| 19 | Suicide and social change in China | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1999 | 182 |
| 20 | Nepali Concepts of Psychological Trauma: The Role of Idioms of Distress, Ethnopsychology and Ethnophysiology in Alleviating Suffering and Preventing Stigma | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2010 | 179 |
| 21 | When rational men fall sick: An inquiry into some assumptions made by medical anthropologists | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1981 | 168 |
| 22 | The biotechnical embrace | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2001 | 168 |
| 23 | Cultural Specificity and Comparison in Psychiatric Epidemiology: Walking the Tightrope in American Indian Research | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2003 | 165 |
| 24 | Idioms of Distress Among Trauma Survivors: Subtypes and Clinical Utility | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2010 | 164 |
| 25 | Ambiquities of aging: Japanese experience and perceptions of menopause | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1986 | 160 |
| 26 | Making muslim babies: Ivf and gamete donation in sunni versus shi’a islam | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2006 | 158 |
| 27 | Inner-city women and AIDS: The psycho-social benefits of unsafe sex | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1993 | 153 |
| 28 | The angry liver, the anxious heart and the melancholy spleen | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1990 | 148 |
| 29 | Social defeat and the culture of chronicity: or, why schizophrenia does so well over there and so badly here | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2007 | 144 |
| 30 | Toward a Puerto Rican Popular Nosology: Nervios and Ataque de Nervios | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2003 | 141 |
| 31 | Navigating Diagnoses: Understanding Mind–Body Relations, Mental Health, and Stigma in Nepal | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2008 | 139 |
| 32 | Working with Jewish ultra-orthodox patients: Guidelines for a culturally sensitive therapy | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1993 | 138 |
| 33 | The state construction of affect: Political ethos and mental health among Salvadoran refugees | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1991 | 137 |
| 34 | Technology and effect: HIV/AIDS testing in Brazil | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2001 | 135 |
| 35 | Impact of breast cancer on Asian American and Anglo American women | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1997 | 133 |
| 36 | The experiences ofAtaques de nervios: Towards an anthropology of emotions in Puerto Rico | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1996 | 132 |
| 37 | Introduction: Cultures of Trauma: Anthropological Views of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in International Health | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2004 | 129 |
| 38 | Transcultural aspects of eating disorders: A critical literature review | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1992 | 127 |
| 39 | The Spanish translation and cultural adaptation of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) in Puerto Rico | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1993 | 127 |
| 40 | Ethnopsychiatric interpretations of schizophrenic illness: The problem of nervios within Mexican-American families | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1988 | 125 |
| 41 | Wellness as virtue: Morality and the pursuit of health | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1994 | 125 |
| 42 | “Maybe I Made Up the Whole Thing”: Placebos and Patients’ Experiences in a Randomized Controlled Trial | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2009 | 125 |
| 43 | The Spanish Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Five Mental Health Outcome Measures | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2003 | 124 |
| 44 | Ethnicity and patterns of help-seeking | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1978 | 120 |
| 45 | Remaking the Self: Trauma, Teachable Moments, and the Biopolitics of Cancer Survivorship | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2012 | 120 |
| 46 | Genetic optimism: framing genes and mental illness in the news | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2001 | 119 |
| 47 | The Mental Health of Ethnic Minority Groups: Challenges Posed by the Supplement to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2003 | 119 |
| 48 | Nightmares Among Cambodian Refugees: The Breaching of Concentric Ontological Security | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2009 | 117 |
| 49 | The Rise of Eating Disorders in Japan: Issues of Culture and Limitations of the Model of ?westernization? | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2004 | 115 |
| 50 | Explaining Mental Health Treatment Disparities: Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Family Involvement | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 2007 | 115 |
