History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 4. 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
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond25
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?25
Aging biomarkers and the measurement of health and risk20
The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy18
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
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 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 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 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
“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
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
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