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Ciara Kierans

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Ciara Kierans — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 14
Works: 51
Citations: 733

Most-cited papers

Sex and gender differences in chronic kidney disease and access to care around the globe.
G. Garcia, Arpana Iyengar, F. Kaze, Ciara Kierans +2 more
2022Seminars in Nephrology137 citations Open access
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Narrating Kidney Disease: The Significance Of Sensation And Time In The Emplotment Of Patient Experience
Ciara Kierans
2005Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry63 citations
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When Health Systems Are Barriers to Health Care: Challenges Faced by Uninsured Mexican Kidney Patients
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla-Altamira, G. García-García, Margarita Ibarra-Hernández +1 more
2013PLoS ONE61 citations Open access
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Descriptions as data: developing techniques to elicit descriptive materials in social research
M. Mair, Ciara Kierans
200753 citations
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Sensory and narrative identity: The narration of illness process among chronic renal sufferers in Ireland
Ciara Kierans, N. Maynooth
200139 citations
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Critical reflections on the field of tobacco research: The role of tobacco control in defining the tobacco research agenda
M. Mair, Ciara Kierans
200734 citations
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Formal health services in informal settings: findings from the Preston Men's Health Project
Ciara Kierans, S. Robertson, M. Mair
200733 citations
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Cultivating ambivalence
Ciara Kierans, Kirsten Bell
2017HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory28 citations
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Care beyond the hospital ward: understanding the socio-medical trajectory of herpes simplex virus encephalitis
Jessie Cooper, Ciara Kierans, S. Defres, A. Easton +2 more
2017BMC Health Services Research26 citations Open access
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Anthropology, organ transplantation and the immune system: resituating commodity and gift exchange.
Ciara Kierans
2011Social Science & Medicine (1967)26 citations
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'Organ donation, genetics, race and culture: The making of a medical problem'
Jessie Cooper, Ciara Kierans
201126 citations
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Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people.
M. Mair, Alexandra Barlow, Susan E. Woods, Ciara Kierans +2 more
2006Social Science & Medicine (1967)26 citations Open access
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Ageing, masculinity and Parkinson's disease: embodied perspectives.
G. Gibson, Ciara Kierans
2017Sociology of Health and Illness15 citations Open access
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Viviendo con trasplante renal, sin protección social en salud: ¿Qué dicen los enfermos sobre las dificultades económicas que enfrentan y sus efectos?
F. Mercado-Martínez, Eduardo Hernández-Ibarra, Carlos D. Ascencio-Mera, B. A. Díaz-Medina +2 more
201415 citations Open access
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What really matters? A mixed methods study of treatment preferences and priorities among people with epilepsy in the UK.
A. Ring, A. Jacoby, G. Baker, E. Holmes +3 more
2019Epilepsy & Behavior14 citations Open access
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Organ donation, ethnicity and the negotiation of death: ethnographic insights from the UK
Jessie Cooper, Ciara Kierans
201614 citations
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The ‘Social Life’ of Scouse: Understanding Contemporary Liverpool through Changing Food Practices
Ciara Kierans, J. Haeney
201014 citations
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Culture and the state: Institutionalizing 'the underclass' in the new Ireland1
A. Saris, Brendan Bartley, Ciara Kierans, C. Walsh +1 more
200213 citations
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Diagnostic Pathways as Social and Participatory Practices: The Case of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
Jessie Cooper, Ciara Kierans, S. Defres, A. Easton +2 more
2016PLoS ONE12 citations Open access
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The emergence of the ‘ethnic donor’: the cultural production and relocation of organ donation in the UK
Ciara Kierans, Jessie Cooper
2013Anthropology and Medicine12 citations
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Doing things with description: practices, politics, and the art of attentiveness
Nicole Vitellone, M. Mair, Ciara Kierans
202011 citations Open access
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Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State
Ciara Kierans
201911 citations
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The Intimate Uncertainties of Kidney Care
Ciara Kierans
2018Anthropological Journal on European Cultures10 citations
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Correction: When Health Systems Are Barriers to Health Care: Challenges Faced by Uninsured Mexican Kidney Patients
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla-Altamira, G. García-García, Margarita Ibarra-Hernández +1 more
2013PLoS ONE8 citations Open access
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Biopolitics and Capital
Ciara Kierans
20157 citations
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Chronic Failures
Ciara Kierans
20195 citations
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Transplantation, Organ Donation and (In)human Experience: Re-writing Boundaries through Embodied Perspectives on Kidney Failure
Ciara Kierans
20165 citations
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[Kidney transplant patients without social protection in health: what do patients say about the economic hardships and impact?].
F. Mercado-Martínez, Eduardo Hernández-Ibarra, Carlos D Ascencio-Mera, B. A. Díaz-Medina +2 more
2014Cadernos de Saúde Pública5 citations Open access
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Describing chronic kidney disease of unknown origin: anthropological noticing and the ‘residual’ category
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla-Altamira
20204 citations Open access
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Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference.
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla-Altamira
2023Medical Anthropology Quarterly3 citations Open access
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Anthropological perspectives on CKDnt in Mexico: time for a paradigm shift on the social determinants of health
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla-Altamira
2023Frontiers in Nephrology2 citations Open access
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Renal Care in an Unequal World: Anthropological Reflections
Ciara Kierans
20172 citations
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Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology and Medicine: Old Concepts, New Problems
Ciara Kierans, C. Kingdon, Kirsten Bell, D. Lupton
20162 citations
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Patients’ uses of information as researchable domains of social practice
M. Mair, Ciara Kierans
2012Health Informatics Journal2 citations
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Organ Donation and Race
Ciara Kierans
20141 citations
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Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals. Vania Smith‐Oka, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021, 228 pp.
Ciara Kierans
2022Medical Anthropology Quarterly0 citations
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5. Exchange: Bodies as Sites for the Production of (Surplus) Value
Ciara Kierans
20190 citations
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Introduction: Encountering Regimes of Renal Care—The Crucible of Experience
Ciara Kierans
20190 citations
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Crowley‐Matoka, Megan. Domesticating organ transplant: familial sacrifice and national aspiration in Mexico. xiv, 316 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2016. £19.99 (paper)
Ciara Kierans
2019Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute0 citations
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4. Brokering Healthcare: Paper-work, Negotiation, and the Strategies of Navigation
Ciara Kierans
20190 citations
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1. Studying Regimes of Renal Care
Ciara Kierans
20190 citations
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3. Labor: Producing Sickness and the State
Ciara Kierans
20190 citations
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7. Political and Corporate Etiologies: Producing Disease Emergence and Disease Response
Ciara Kierans
20190 citations
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Naomi Pfeffer, Insider Trading: How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017), pp. 372, $30, hardback, ISBN: 9780300118551.
Ciara Kierans
2018Medicina e historia0 citations Open access
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Some methodological considerations for anthropology
Ciara Kierans
20170 citations
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Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights on the (Bio)Political Economy of Organ Exchange
Ciara Kierans
20170 citations
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Viver com transplante renal sem proteção social em saúde: o que os pacientes dizem sobre as dificuldades econômicas e os seus efeitos?
Francisco Javier Mercado-Martínez, Eduardo Hernández-Ibarra, Carlos D. Ascencio-Mera, B. A. Díaz-Medina +2 more
20140 citations Open access
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Gender, State and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895-1950
Ciara Kierans
20140 citations
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The Donated Organ as Institutional Product: donation, ethnicity and the organisation of transplant medicine in the UK
Ciara Kierans
20130 citations
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'Mihealth': understanding local contexts of use in HICTs for breast cancer
Ciara Kierans
20060 citations
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