History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?25
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond25
Aging biomarkers and the measurement of health and risk20
COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values18
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare18
Immunitarianism: defence and sacrifice in the politics of Covid-1918
The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy18
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-1915
Does anybody really know what time it is?14
Epidemiological models and COVID-19: a comparative view14
COVID-19 heralds a new epistemology of science for the public good13
Mouse avatars of human cancers: the temporality of translation in precision oncology12
Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage12
What are the COVID-19 models modeling (philosophically speaking)?11
How disinformation kills: philosophical challenges in the post-Covid society11
Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account11
Science communication: challenges and dilemmas in the age of COVID-1911
Beyond politics: additional factors underlying skepticism of a COVID-19 vaccine10
Can aging research generate a theory of health?10
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-1910
The holobiont self: understanding immunity in context10
Flattening the curve is flattening the complexity of covid-1910
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy9
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to COVID-199
Demented patients and the quandaries of identity: setting the problem, advancing a proposal9
The meaning of Freedom after Covid-199
COVID-19, immunoprivilege and structural inequalities8
Ageing and the goal of evolution8
The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic8
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review8
The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth century7
Historical reflection on Taijin-kyōfushō during COVID-19: a global phenomenon of social anxiety?7
Imagination and remembrance: what role should historical epidemiology play in a world bewitched by mathematical modelling of COVID-19 and other epidemics?7
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research7
Rethinking the history of peptic ulcer disease and its relevance for network epistemology7
The failure of drug repurposing for COVID-19 as an effect of excessive hypothesis testing and weak mechanistic evidence7
Software engineering standards for epidemiological models7
The Kantian account of mechanical explanation of natural ends in eighteenth and nineteenth century biology6
COVID-19 and the selection problem in national cause-of-death statistics6
Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose6
On evidence fiascos and judgments in COVID-19 policy6
COVID-19: Rethinking the nature of viruses6
Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference6
The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention6
Croizat’s dangerous ideas: practices, prejudices, and politics in contemporary biogeography6
The time of one's life: views of aging and age group justice6
Between hoping to die and longing to live longer6
What’s my age again? Age categories as interactive kinds6
COVID-19, a critical juncture in China’s wildlife protection?6
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia6
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users6
The ‘Is’ and the ‘Ought’ of the Animal Organism: Hegel’s Account of Biological Normativity5
Small RNA research and the scientific repertoire: a tale about biochemistry and genetics, crops and worms, development and disease5
Natural selection according to Darwin: cause or effect?5
Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling5
Practicing virology: making and knowing a mid-twentieth century experiment with Tobacco mosaic virus5
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy5
Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine5
Five common misconceptions regarding flattening-the-curve of COVID-195
Christian Reiß, Der Axolotl: Ein Labortier im Heimaquarium, 1864–1914, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020, 299 pp., € 29.905
Who's afraid of epigenetics? Habits, instincts, and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory5
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together4
Henry Cowles, The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 20204
Before translational medicine: laboratory-clinic relations4
Making policy decisions under plural uncertainty: responding to the COVID-19 pandemic4
Assessing the quality of evidence from epidemiological agent-based models for the COVID-19 pandemic4
Ethnobotanical profiles of wild edible plants recorded from Mongolia by Yunatov during 1940–19514
COVID-19 and inequalities: the need for inclusive policy response4
Science, misinformation and digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Homeorhesis: envisaging the logic of life trajectories in molecular research on trauma and its effects4
“I would sooner die than give up”: Huxley and Darwin's deep disagreement4
A box, a trough and marbles: How the Reed-Frost epidemic theory shaped epidemiological reasoning in the 20th century4
Contrasting Narratives of Race and Fatness in Covid-193
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions3
COVID-19, uncertainty, and moral experiments3
Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability3
Seeing clearly through COVID-19: current and future questions for the history and philosophy of the life sciences3
The pre-Darwinian history of the comparative method, 1555–18553
Masks, mechanisms and Covid-19: the limitations of randomized trials in pandemic policymaking3
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research3
Attention: a descriptive taxonomy3
How can science be well-ordered in times of crisis? Learning from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic3
Figuring out what is happening: the discovery of two electrophysiological phenomena3
Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation3
Medical toolkit organisms and Covid-193
Genuine versus bogus scientific controversies: the case of statins3
COVID-19 and the reenactment of mass masking in South Korea2
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature2
Philia: the biological foundations of Aristotle’s ethics2
After the trans brain: a critique of the neurobiological accounts of embodied trans* identities2
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism2
Kraepelin’s psychiatry in the pragmatic age2
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review2
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?2
Rethinking ageing: introduction2
Mandatory vaccinations, the segregation of citizens, and the promotion of inequality in the modern democracy of Greece and other democratic countries in the era of COVID-192
The great leveller? COVID-19’s dynamic interaction with social inequalities in the UK2
Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity2
Seeing beyond COVID-19: understanding the impact of the pandemic on oncology, and the importance of preparedness2
The concepts and origins of cell mortality2
Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism2
Mechanisms of macromolecular reactions2
Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”2
Darwin’s perception of nature and the question of disenchantment: a semantic analysis across the six editions of On the Origin of Species2
Do heritable immune responses extend physiological individuality?2
Technics and signs: anthropogenesis in Vygotsky, Leroi-Gourhan, and Stiegler2
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept2
Hamster numbers: biopolitics and animal agency in the Dutch fields, circa 1870-present2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”2
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes2
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine2
To lock or not to lock? Mexico case1
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life1
Justin Garson, What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20191
The past and present of pandemic management: health diplomacy, international epidemiological surveillance, and COVID-191
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies1
Design principles and mechanistic explanation1
COVID-19 and the problem of clinical knowledge1
Anneli Jefferson, Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?, London: Routledge, 20221
The hatching of consciousness1
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life1
Question-driven stepwise experimental discoveries in biochemistry: two case studies1
Re-situations of scientific knowledge: a case study of a skirmish over clusters vs clines in human population genomics1
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care1
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill1
“Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century America1
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 20201
Non-epistemic values in shaping the parameters for evaluating the effectiveness of candidate vaccines: the case of an Ebola vaccine trial1
Blood and plasma donors during the COVID-19 pandemic: arguments against financial stimulation1
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip1
Arche-writing and data-production in theory-oriented scientific practice: the case of free-viewing as experimental system to test the temporal correlation hypothesis1
Metaphors as models: Towards a typology of metaphor in ancient science1
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology1
Taxon names and varieties of reference1
Jimena Canales, Bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 20201
Toward a comparative history of medical genetics as a medical specialty in North America1
A work in progress: William Bateson’s vibratory theory of repetition of parts1
Neither vitalist nor mechanist, neither dualist nor idealist: Plessner's third way1
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-191
JN. Pohn rebble, searching for a mechanism. A history of cell bioenergetics1
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality1
Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism1
Empirical assumptions behind the violation of expectation experiments in human and non-human animals1
Stability by degrees: conceptions of constancy from the history of perceptual psychology1
Ben Bradley, Darwin’s psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20201
Values in evolutionary biology: a comparison between the contemporary debate on organic progress and Canguilhem’s biological philosophy1
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences1
Mirko D. Grmek. Pathological realities. essays on disease, experiments, and history. edited, translated, and with an introduction by Pierre-Olivier Méthot. foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. New York:1
The ‘good’ of extending fertility: ontology and moral reasoning in a biotemporal regime of reproduction1
The evolution of moral belief: support for the debunker’s causal premise1
Reevaluating the grandmother hypothesis1
Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution1
On the nature of evolutionary explanations: a critical appraisal of Walter Bock’s approach with a new revised proposal1
Cristian Saborido, Filosofía de la Medicina, Madrid: Tecnos, 20201
A controversy about chance and the origins of life: thermodynamicist Ilya Prigogine replies to molecular biologist Jacques Monod1
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises1
Francesca Michelini & Kristian Köchy (eds.), Jakob von Uexküll and philosophy: life, environments, anthropology, Abingdon: Routledge, 20201
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information1
Biological constraints as norms in evolution1
Medical technologies, time, and the good life1
Bert Theunissen, Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 20201
How urban ‘informality’ can inform response to COVID-19: a research agenda for the future1
A fetus in the world: Physiology, epidemiology, and the making of fetal origins of adult disease1
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century1
Animal research unbound: The messiness of the moral and the ethnographer’s dilemma1
Kant, intoxicated: the aesthetics of drunkenness, between moral duty and “active play”1
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