OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	205
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	105
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	71
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	33
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	32
The need for “gentle medicine” in a post Covid-19 world	27
The case for biotechnological exceptionalism	27
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	24
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	22
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	21
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	21
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	21
The hermeneutics of symptoms	20
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework	20
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations	19
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	19
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	16
The impotence of ethics	16
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	15
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	15
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	15
Dying like a dog: the convergence of concepts of a good death in human and veterinary medicine	15
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	15
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	14
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	14

No (true) right to die: barriers in access to physician-assisted death in case of psychiatric disease, advanced dementia or multiple geriatric syndromes in the Netherlands	13
Ethical issues in biomedical research using electronic health records: a systematic review	13
Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	13
Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	13
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	11
Beyond ethical post-mortems	11
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	10
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	10
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	10
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	9
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	9
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	8
Mental health pluralism	8
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	8
The “Medical friendship” or the true meaning of the doctor-patient relationship from two complementary perspectives: Goya and Laín	8
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	7
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	7
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	7
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	7
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	7
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	7
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor	6
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care	6
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	6
Phenomenological and existential contributions to the study of erectile dysfunction	6
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	6
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	6
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	6
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	5
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	5
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	5
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	5
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	5
Professionalism, Organizationalism and Sur-moralism: Three ethical systems for physicians	5
Decision-making approaches in transgender healthcare: conceptual analysis and ethical implications	5
Medicine and machines	5
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	5
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	5
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	5
Bringing disgust in through the backdoor in healthy food promotion: a phenomenological perspective	5
Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account	4
«Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering	4
Why physicians have authority over patients	4
Vulnerability, ageism, and health: is it helpful to label older adults as a vulnerable group in health care?	4
Postcolonial theory and Canada’s health care professions: bridging the gap	4
Enhancing the collectivist critique: accounts of the human enhancement debate	4
Evaluating emotions in medical practice: a critical examination of ‘clinical detachment’ and emotional attunement in orthopaedic surgery	4
Relational autonomy: lessons from COVID-19 and twentieth-century philosophy	4

Historical empathy and medicine: Pathography and empathy in Sophocles’ Philoctetes	4
On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient-centered care: a case study	4
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	4
Chronic illness as transformative activity	4
The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	4
A fair exchange: why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated	4
The concept of social dignity as a yardstick to delimit ethical use of robotic assistance in the care of older persons	4
New frontiers in the moral responsibility debate	3
The continuing formation of relational caring professionals	3
Toward a new clinical pragmatism: method in clinical ethics consultation	3
Premature consent and patient duties	3
The significance of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of responsibility for medical judgment	3
Popperian methodology and the Semmelweis case*	3
Managing feeding needs in advanced dementia: perspectives from ethics of care and ubuntu philosophy	3
“Green informed consent” in the classroom, clinic, and consultation room	3
The Ethical Obligation for Research During Public Health Emergencies: Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Suicide and Homicide: Symmetries and Asymmetries in Kant’s Ethics	3
Towards trust-based governance of health data research	3
Healthcare providers' advocacy approaches and ethical challenges in delivering healthcare to undocumented migrants: a scoping review	3
Genetic enhancement from the perspective of transhumanism: exploring a new paradigm of transhuman evolution	3
Revisiting respect for persons: conceptual analysis and implications for clinical practice	3
Solidarity and Public Health	3
Correction to: Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice	3
Why a responsibility sensitive healthcare system is not disrespectful	3
Who has a meaningful life? A care ethics analysis of selective trait abortion	3
Ethico-Political aspects of clinical judgment in opportunistic screening for cognitive impairment: Arendtian and aristotelian perspectives	2
The practical ethics of repurposing health data: how to acknowledge invisible data work and the need for prioritization	2
Correction: Beyond ethical post-mortems	2
Correction to: On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient‑centered care: a case study	2
Moralization and Mismoralization in Public Health	2
Philosophers in research ethics committees—what do they think they’re doing? An empirical-ethical analysis	2
Defending explicability as a principle for the ethics of artificial intelligence in medicine	2
On the use of evolutionary mismatch theories in debating human prosociality	2
Personal identity, possible worlds, and medical ethics	2
Gentle medicine	2
Navigating the uncommon: challenges in applying evidence-based medicine to rare diseases and the prospects of artificial intelligence solutions	2
Medicine, health and the human side: responsibility in medical practice	2
Bodies as communication systems. The relevance of Michel Serres’s philosophy of science for health care	2
The ‘false hope’ argument in discussions on expanded access to investigational drugs: a critical assessment	2
“Ruptured selves: moral injury and wounded identity”	2
Justifying a morally permissible breach of contract: kantian ethics, nozickian justice, and vaccine patents	2
Should responsibility be used as a tiebreaker in allocation of deceased donor organs for patients suffering from alcohol-related end-stage liver disease?	2
Mechanisms of defense in clinical ethics consultation	2
Green bioethics	2
Institutional design and moral conflict in health care priority-setting	2
The obscured face in video consultations. A Levinasian analysis	2
Healthcare exceptionalism: should healthcare be treated differently when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?	2
Against age limits for men in reproductive care	2
The significance of the distinction between “having a life” vs. “being alive” in end-of-life care	2
Love and romantic relationship in the domain of medicine	2
Authenticity and the argument from testability: a bottom-up approach	2