OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Reasonable Content of Conscience in Public Bioethics	91
Applying Rawls’ Theory of Public Reason to Controversies over Parental Surrogacy	48
The Dobbs Decision: Can It Be Justified by Public Reason?	38
Teaching Ethics Consultation Using a Tabletop Exercise	31
Public Reason Requirements in Bioethical Discourse	30
Anything Goes? Analyzing Varied Understandings of Assent	28
Learning to Live with Strange Error: Beyond Trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence Ethics	23
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence	23
Operationalising Moral Status: Approaching a Pragmatic Spectrum	20
Adolescent OCD Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Identity, Authenticity, and Normalcy in Potential Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment	20
Xenotransplantation Can Be Safe—A Reply	20
A Critical Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the Consequences of Fetal Personhood	19
A Tale of Two Chimeras: Applying the Six Principles to Human Brain Organoid Xenotransplantation	16
Exit Duty Generator	16
Identifying Relevant Topics for Inclusion in an Ethics Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees: A Survey of Practitioners in the Field	15
On the Ethics of Withholding and Withdrawing Unwarranted Diagnoses	14
Seeing and Having Seen: On Suffering and Intersubjectivity	14
Naming and Describing Disability in Law and Medicine	12
Wounds and Vulnerabilities. The Participation of Special Operations Forces in Experimental Brain–Computer Interface Research	12
The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives	12
How to Make Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Safer	12
Existential Suffering as a Legitimization of Euthanasia	11
Bioethics and Public Policy: Is There Hope for Public Reason?	11
Incidental Findings from Deep Phenotyping Research in Psychiatry: Legal and Ethical Considerations	10
Neurorights versus Externalism about Mental Content: Characterizing the ‘Harm’ of Neurotechnological Mind Reading	10

Bioethics transformed: 40 years of the value of life	10
Neurolaw—A Call to Action	10
On Matti Häyry’s “Exit Duty Generator”	10
Dreaming A Better World for Animals: A Review of David Peña-Guzmán’s When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, 2022, 259 pp. ISBN 9780691220093.	9
Developing Novel Tools for Bioethics Education: ACECS and the Visual Analytics Dashboard	9
The Wrong Motives for Potentially Harming a Being	9
Social Support: From Exclusion Criteria to Medical Service	9
Germline Gene Editing: The Gender Issues	9
Physicians Controlling Women’s Reproductive Choices: The Slow Liberalization of Abortion Laws in Finland	9
Strategic Ambiguity: The Pragmatic Utopianism of Daniel Callahan’s “Bioethics as a Discipline”	9
When Is Something an Alternative? A General Account Applied to Animal-Free Alternatives to Animal Research	9
Frailty as a Priority-Setting Criterion for Potentially Lifesaving Treatment—Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Circularity, and Indirect Discrimination?	8
Organ Conscription and Greater Needs	8
Daring to Taste: A Review of Living as a Bird by Vinciane Despret	8
Gratitude	8
Review of Dranove and Burns, 2021. Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America	8
Human Brain Organoids: Why There Can Be Moral Concerns If They Grow Up in the Lab and Are Transplanted or Destroyed	7
Cost-Effectiveness, Incompleteness, and Discrimination	7
Ghost in the Machine	7
Cognitive Enhancement as Transformative Experience: The Challenge of Wrapping One’s Mind Around Enhanced Cognition via Neurostimulation	7
More Process, Less Principles: The Ethics of Deploying AI and Robotics in Medicine	7
Precision Medicine and Rough Justice: Wicked Problems	7
Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine by Pekka Louhiala	6
A Balance of Rights: The Italian Way to the Abortion Controversy	6
“Terminal Anorexia”, Treatment Refusal and Decision-Making Capacity	6
What Do Chimeras Think About?	6
Suffering and Intellectual (Dis)Ability	6
On the Legal Status of Human Cerebral Organoids: Lessons from Animal Law	6
Invisible Victims and the Case for OTC SSRIs	6
On the Justified Use of AI Decision Support in Evidence-Based Medicine: Validity, Explainability, and Responsibility	5
Reconsidering Capacity to Appoint a Healthcare Proxy	5
Objective Suffering: What is it? What Could it be?	5
Rethinking Animal Consciousness Research to Prioritize Well-Being	5
The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith	5
Uterus Transplant: Bioethical and Biolegal Issues from Mexico	5
Euthanasia for the Elderly: Multiple Geriatric Syndromes and Unbearable Suffering According to Dutch Euthanasia Review Committees	5
How Populism Affects Bioethics	5
At a Moment of Electoral Equipoise: A Review of It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. New York: Signet Classics, 2014, 397 pp. ISBN 978-0-451-46564-1.	5
Ethical and Equitable Digital Health Research: Ensuring Self-Determination in Data Governance for Racialized Communities	4
Commentary on Rissfeldt: The Small Matter of the Doctor’s Autonomy	4
Mobile Health in China: Well Integrated or a New Divide?	4
The Picture Theory of Disability	4
Public Reason, Bioethics, and Public Policy: A Seductive Delusion or Ambitious Aspiration?	4
Abortion Access and the Benefits and Limitations of Abortion-Permissive Legal Frameworks: Lessons from the United Kingdom	4
Human Antinatalism and the Limits of Bipolar Pessimism	4
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”: Toward (and Back to) a Transparent, Destigmatizing Debate	4
Leveraging a Sturdy Norm: How Ethicists Really Argue	4
What’s Wrong with Restrictivism?	4
Values of Life: 40 years of The Value of Life	4
Subject and Family Perspectives from the Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation Trial for Traumatic Brain Injury: Part II	4

Public Reason in Times of Corona: Countering Disinformation in the Netherlands	4
QALYs, Disability Discrimination, and the Role of Adaptation in the Capacity to Recover: The Patient-Sensitive Health-Related Quality of Life Account	4
Double Talk	4
Editorial: The Ethical Implications of Using AI in Medicine	4
Federalism for Bioethics?	4
Ethical Implications in Making Use of Human Cerebral Organoids for Investigating Stress—Related Mechanisms and Disorders	4
Decisional Capacity After Dark: Is Autonomy Delayed Truly Autonomy Denied?	3
Capacity Reconceptualized: From Assessment Tool to Clinical Intervention	3
Abortion and “Zombie” Laws: Who Is Accountable?	3
The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion, by Walter Glannon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019	3
Ethics Education in Health Sciences Should Engage Contentious Social Issues: Here Is Why and How	3
Toward a Social Bioethics Through Interpretivism: A Framework for Healthcare Ethics	3
Applying the Peter Parker Principle to Healthcare	3
The One Health Paradigm and Wild Animal Welfare Science	3
The Paradox of Sentient Life as an Irrational Consequence of Pronatalist Ethics	3
Assessing Public Reason Approaches to Conscientious Objection in Healthcare	3
Lost in Translation	3
Consciousness and the Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Research	3
Bioethics: No Method—No Discipline?	3
Reflection Machines: Supporting Effective Human Oversight Over Medical Decision Support Systems	3
Against Intelligence: Rethinking Criteria for Medical School Admissions	3
Cerebral Organoid Research Ethics and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey	3
Hard Choices: How Does Injustice Affect the Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying?	3
An Educational Framework for Healthcare Ethics Consultation to Approach Structural Stigma in Mental Health and Substance Use Health	2
List of Contributors	2
One Health Requires a Theory of Agency	2
When Suicide is not a Self -Killing: Advance Decisions and Psychological Discontinuity—Part I	2
The “Life” of the Mind: Persons and Survival	2
Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and Equitable Patient Selection	2
Refusals and Requests: In Defense of Consistency	2
Theoretical Neurobiology of Consciousness Applied to Human Cerebral Organoids	2
The Contested Value of Life	2
Roe v. Wade and the Predatory State Interest in Protecting Future Cannon Fodder	2
Principlism, Uncodifiability, and the Problem of Specification	2
Improving the Implementation of Advance Directives in Spain	2
AI-Inclusivity in Healthcare: Motivating an Institutional Epistemic Trust Perspective	2
The End of Sentience	2
Justainability	2
Is the Requirement for First-Person Experience of Psychedelic Drugs a Justified Component of a Psychedelic Therapist’s Training?	2
A Response to Zambrano	2
“When Appearances Matter: A Taxonomy and Ethics for Demographic-Based Provider Requests”	2
On Interpretation and Appreciation. A European Human Rights Perspective on Dobbs	2
Narrating the Black Body in “Under the Skin” - Review of Linda Villarosa, 2022. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation. Doubleday	2
Nudging, Bullshitting, and the Meta-Nudge	2
Healthcare Priorities: The “Young” and the “Old”	2
Brain Model Technology and Its Implications	2
Vulnerability Ethics, Abortion, and Organ Donation	1
Using Antipsychotics for Self-Defense Purposes by Care Staff in Residential Aged Care Facilities: An Ethical Analysis	1
Machine Ethics in Care: Could a Moral Avatar Enhance the Autonomy of Care-Dependent Persons?	1
Accepting Moral Luck and Taking Responsibility in Public Health Crises	1
Bioethics Without Theory?	1
Why Not Phase Out Animal Experimentation? Considering Objections from Freedom of Inquiry and Cross-Border Displacement	1
Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’	1
What It Means to Be Human: A Response to Harzheim	1
Confessions of an Antinatalist Philosopher	1
Reconsidering the Many Disorders of Consciousness	1
At the Museum	1
Sam’s Story: Reflections on Suicide and the Doctor/Patient Relationship	1
The Role of Exceptionalism in the Evolution of Bioethical Regulation	1
Can We Justify Military Enhancements? Some Yes, Most No	1
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya, Princeton University Press, 2017.	1
Subject and Family Perspectives from the Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Traumatic Brain Injury Study: Part I	1
The Impact of a Study Trip to Auschwitz: Place-based Learning for Bioethics Education and Professional Identity Formation	1
Sentience. Not Necessarily a Problem?	1
Suffering at the Margins: Non-Experiential Suffering and Disorders of Consciousness	1
Teaching Pathographies of Mental Illness	1
A Much-Needed Perspective	1
Setting Limits for the Principle of Equal Entitlement to Continued Life	1
Miracle	1
Interprofessional Ethics Simulations and Debriefing to Develop Collaborative Skills	1
Welfare, Abortion, and Organ Donation: A Reply to the Restrictivist	1
Cost-Effectiveness and the Avoidance of Discrimination in Healthcare: Can We Have Both?	1
Neural Organoids: How Should We Handle the Possibility of Sentience? – CORRIGENDUM	1
Against the Phrase “Aggressive Care”	1
From Mollusks to Machines: An Ethical Framework Focused on the Urgency of Extreme Suffering	1
Neural Organoids: How Should We Handle the Possibility of Sentience?	1
Developing a Postpandemic Model for Hybrid Clinical Ethics Rotations in Postgraduate Medical Education	1
Two Views of Vulnerability in the Evolution of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law	1