| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Structural Vulnerability and Health: Latino Migrant Laborers in the United States | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2011 | 571 |
| 2 | Obstetric Racism: The Racial Politics of Pregnancy, Labor, and Birthing | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2019 | 242 |
| 3 | Obesity and socioeconomic status: A framework for examining relationships between physical and social variables | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1991 | 228 |
| 4 | Part Two: The role of constitutional factors, diet, and infectious disease in the etiology of porotic hyperostosis and periosteal reactions in prehistoric infants and children | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1978 | 180 |
| 5 | Pregnancy, Birth and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2020 | 161 |
| 6 | “Cycling Overseas”: Care, Commodification, and Stratification in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2010 | 160 |
| 7 | The Epigenome and Nature/Nurture Reunification: A Challenge for Anthropology | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2013 | 145 |
| 8 | Slow Research: Thoughts for a Movement in Global Health | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2014 | 145 |
| 9 | Impact of law enforcement on syringe exchange programs: A look at Oakland and San Francisco | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1997 | 143 |
| 10 | Global Health Business: The Production and Performativity of Statistics in Sierra Leone and Germany | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2012 | 137 |
| 11 | "Nobody gives a damn if I live or die": Violence, drugs, and street-level prostitution in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2003 | 136 |
| 12 | Aging Disaster: Mortality, Vulnerability, and Long-Term Recovery among Katrina Survivors | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2011 | 135 |
| 13 | Ataques de nerviosin Puerto Rico: Culture‐bound syndrome or popular illness? | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1993 | 121 |
| 14 | The multiple meanings of ataques de nervios in the Latino community | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1989 | 115 |
| 15 | Biotech Pilgrims and the Transnational Quest for Stem Cell Cures | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2010 | 114 |
| 16 | Hype and weight | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1991 | 113 |
| 17 | The insufficient milk syndrome: A biocultural explanation | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1980 | 112 |
| 18 | Sexuality, AIDS, and the lures of modernity: Reflexivity and morality among young people in rural Tanzania | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2003 | 111 |
| 19 | Global Health Diplomacy | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2008 | 109 |
| 20 | The suffering stranger: Medical anthropology and international morality | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2002 | 104 |
| 21 | COVID-19, Risk, Fear, and Fall-out | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2020 | 104 |
| 22 | Infect one, infect all: Zulu youth response to the aids epidemic in South Africa | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1997 | 101 |
| 23 | Biocommunicability and the Biopolitics of Pandemic Threats | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2009 | 101 |
| 24 | Why does juan garcía have a drinking problem? The perspective of critical medical anthropology | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1992 | 99 |
| 25 | Part three: Doctor,espiritistaor psychiatrist?: Health‐seeking behavior in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York city | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1977 | 96 |
| 26 | Traveling for Medical Care in a Global World | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2010 | 96 |
| 27 | Cultural and medical perspectives on geophagia | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1992 | 95 |
| 28 | ‘ConceivingKothis’: Men Who Have Sex with Men in India and the Cultural Subject of HIV Prevention | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2007 | 95 |
| 29 | Structural Vulnerability and Hierarchies of Ethnicity and Citizenship on the Farm | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2011 | 94 |
| 30 | Seeing Like a Research Project: Producing “High-Quality Data” in AIDS Research in Malawi | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2012 | 93 |
| 31 | Sweet blood and social suffering: Rethinking cause-effect relationships in diabetes, distress, and duress | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2003 | 91 |
| 32 | “Deaf Discourse”: The Social Construction of Deafness in a Bedouin Community | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2008 | 90 |
| 33 | A Disease Unlike Any Other? Why HIV Remains Exceptional in the Age of Treatment | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2014 | 90 |
| 34 | The good body: When big is better | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1991 | 89 |
| 35 | An anthropological perspective on the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): The role of parental breathing cues and speech breathing adaptations | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1986 | 86 |
| 36 | Group interview methods in community health research | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1994 | 85 |
| 37 | Sexual behavior and spread of AIDS in Mexico | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1989 | 80 |
| 38 | Patients without Borders: Understanding Medical Travel | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2010 | 79 |
| 39 | The COVID-19 Pandemic: Making Sense of Rumor and Fear | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2020 | 79 |
| 40 | Switching between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Viagra: Cosmopolitanism and Medical Pluralism Today1 | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2007 | 78 |
| 41 | AIDS and the IV drug user: The local context in prevention efforts | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1992 | 77 |
| 42 | Needle exchange, HIV infection, and the politics of science: Confronting Canada's cocaine injection epidemic with participant observation | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2000 | 76 |
| 43 | Storytelling, marginality, and community in Australia: How immigrants position their difference in health care settings | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2003 | 75 |
| 44 | Plastic Paradise: Transforming Bodies and Selves in Costa Rica's Cosmetic Surgery Tourism Industry | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2010 | 75 |
| 45 | Therapeutic Itineraries in a Global World: Yemenis and their search for biomedical treatment abroad | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2002 | 73 |
| 46 | Plague Masks: The Visual Emergence of Anti-Epidemic Personal Protection Equipment | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2018 | 73 |
| 47 | Part 1: The illegal distribution of western medicines in developing countries: Pharmacists, drug pedlars, injection doctors and others. A bibliographic exploration | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1982 | 72 |
| 48 | Alcohol and risky sex: In search of an elusive connection | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1992 | 71 |
| 49 | Lay conceptions of autism: Parents’ explanatory models | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 1994 | 71 |
| 50 | Imagining HIV/AIDS: Morality and perceptions of personal risk in Nigeria | Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness | 2003 | 71 |
