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Medical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Philip Højme
University of Business in Wrocław
2
Thomas Leddy
San Jose State University
3
Ali Eren Demir
Mardin Artuklu University
4
Feng Hong
Peking University
5
Davina Höll
University of Tübingen
6
Zhanargul PANGALIYEVA
Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇
7
Samuel Lindholm
University of Jyväskylä
8
Damla ERCAN
Hacettepe University
9
Michelle Izmaylov
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
10
Günter Blamberger
University of Cologne

Rising Stars Papers

1
Giorgio Agamben’s Critique of the Covid-19 Response has Little to Do with Biopolitics
Critical Horizons|2024
2 cit.
2
On the values of microbes: An ethical investigation of relational values associated with the microbial world
People and Nature|2025
2 cit.
3
The moral injury of zeeple‐zoople
Academic Emergency Medicine|2025
1 cit.
4
Making a Moment
JAMA Internal Medicine|2025
1 cit.
5
Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism: Rethinking the history of biopower
Philosophy & Social Criticism|2025
1 cit.
6
The alternative
Academic Emergency Medicine|2024
0 cit.
7
Luther and Biopower: Rethinking the Reformation with Foucault
Foucault Studies|2024
0 cit.
8
Organs-without-body: a study on the genealogy of vision leading to the posthuman age
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications|2024
0 cit.
9
What the Patient Considered Essential
Journal of General Internal Medicine|2024
0 cit.
10
What I Did Not Learn Within the Hospital
Journal of General Internal Medicine|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Rashmi Gaur
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
2
Anna-Verena Nosthoff
University of Vienna
3
Lynne Chapman
Independent Dance
4
Zühal Başbuğ
Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği
5
Bengül GÜNGÖRMEZ AKOSMAN
Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇
6
John MacCallum
Johns Hopkins University
7
M. Khoirul Hadi Al Asy ari
Indonesia Open University
8
F. Egger
Saarland University
9
Angelika Gabauer
TU Wien
10
Dilruba İZGÜDEN
Süleyman Demirel University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The caring city: ethics of urban design
Journal of Urban Design|2022
18 cit.
2
A video-based analysis of situations bearing the risk of respiratory disease transmission during football matches
Scientific Reports|2022
8 cit.
3
Überwachungskapitalistische Biopolitik: Big Tech und die Regierung der Körper
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft|2022
7 cit.
4
Pandemic Solutionism
Digital Culture & Society|2022
7 cit.
5
Physical Demands of Walking Football in Patients With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Diseases
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine|2024
7 cit.
6
OECD Ülkelerinin Sağlık Göstergeleri ve Sağlık Ekipmanlarının Entropi Temelli ARAS ve SAW Yöntemleri ile Değerlendirilmesi
Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Vizyoner Dergisi|2022
6 cit.
7
Dijital Hastane Uygulamaları: Şehir Hastanesi Çalışanları Üzerine Bir İnceleme
Gümüşhane Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi|2022
6 cit.
8
Assembling atmospheres, encountering care: Risk, affect, and safety in the cystic fibrosis clinic
Wellbeing Space and Society|2022
5 cit.
9
The platform economy’s infrastructural transformation of the public sphere: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica revisited
Philosophy & Social Criticism|2023
4 cit.
10
COVID-19 Vaccine Attitude Scale: Validity and Reliability Study: Methodological Study
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Health Sciences|2022
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Arthur Kleinman
Harvard University
2
Fernanda Bruno
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
3
Kevin Grove
Florida International University
4
Simon Coleman
University of Toronto
5
Ayo Wahlberg
University of Copenhagen
6
William L. White
Chestnut Health Systems
7
Zala Volčić
Monash University
8
Nizaiá Cassián
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
9
Sam Okoth Opondo
Vassar College
10
Guillermo Andrés Duque Silva
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The illness narratives: suffering, healing, and the human condition
Choice Reviews Online|1988
3.6k cit.
2
Culture, Illness, and Care
Annals of Internal Medicine|1978
2.9k cit.
3
Concepts and a model for the comparison of medical systems as cultural systems
Social Science & Medicine Part B Medical Anthropology|1978
1k cit.
4
Culture and Depression
New England Journal of Medicine|2004
774 cit.
5
Anthropology and Psychiatry
The British Journal of Psychiatry|1987
729 cit.
6
Neurasthenia and depression: A study of somatization and culture in China
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry|1982
678 cit.
7
Process Evaluation for Public Health Interventions and Research
Evaluation and Program Planning|2003
646 cit.
8
Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1993
502 cit.
9
Suffering and its professional transformation: toward an ethnography of interpersonal experience
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry|1991
476 cit.
10
Addiction recovery: Its definition and conceptual boundaries
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment|2007
400 cit.

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