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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
New frontiers in the moral responsibility debate	184
To cure or not to cure	94
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care	58
Shades of hope: Marcel’s notion of hope in end-of-life care	33
On recovery: re-directing the concept by differentiation of its meanings	30
Making Biomedical Sciences publications more accessible for machines	29
Adaptation and illness severity: the significance of suffering	27
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	23
Popperian methodology and the Semmelweis case*	22
Debates on humanization of human-animal brain chimeras – are we putting the cart before the horses?	20
Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue?	19
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	19
Systemising triage: COVID-19 guidelines and their underlying theories of distributive justice	18
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	18
Maternal epigenetic responsibility: what can we learn from the pandemic?	17
Managing feeding needs in advanced dementia: perspectives from ethics of care and ubuntu philosophy	16
The medical gap: intuition in medicine	15
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	15
Who has a meaningful life? A care ethics analysis of selective trait abortion	14
Suicide and Homicide: Symmetries and Asymmetries in Kant’s Ethics	14
Ethical challenges of clinical trials with a repurposed drug in outbreaks	14
Sharing a medical decision	13
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	13
Personhood as projection: the value of multiple conceptions of personhood for understanding the dehumanisation of people living with dementia	13
Genetic enhancement from the perspective of transhumanism: exploring a new paradigm of transhuman evolution	12

Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	12
Severity and death	11
Children with medical complexities: their distinct vulnerability in health systems’ Covid-19 response and their claims of justice in the recovery phase	11
Potentiality switches and epistemic uncertainty: the Argument from Potential in times of human embryo-like structures	11
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	11
The significance of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of responsibility for medical judgment	11
“Green informed consent” in the classroom, clinic, and consultation room	11
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	10
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	10
Medicine, health and the human side: responsibility in medical practice	10
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	10
Ethical (mis)use of prehistory	10
Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice	10
Letter to the editor: considerations for ethical incentives in research	9
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	8
Correction: Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishing	8
Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishing	8
Correction to: On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient‑centered care: a case study	8
Epistemic solidarity in medicine and healthcare	7
Intergenerational contract in Ageing Democracies: sustainable Welfare Systems and the interests of future generations	7
The duty of care and the right to be cared for: is there a duty to treat the unvaccinated?	7
Commodification of biomaterials and data when funding is contingent to transfer in biobank research	7
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	7
Disease diagnosis and treatment; could theranostics change everything?	7
Phenomenological and existential contributions to the study of erectile dysfunction	6
Solidarity and Public Health	6
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	6
Toward a new clinical pragmatism: method in clinical ethics consultation	6
Genomics governance: advancing justice, fairness and equity through the lens of the African communitarian ethic of Ubuntu	6
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	6
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	5
Precision medicine and the fragmentation of solidarity (and justice)	5
Empathy is not so perfect! -For a descriptive and wide conception of empathy	5
Relating to foetal persons: why women’s Voices come first and last, but not alone in Abortion debates	5
Controversies between regulations of research ethics and protection of personal data: informed consent at a cross-road	5
Epistemologies of evidence-based medicine: a plea for corpus-based conceptual research in the medical humanities	5
Vision, body and interpretation in medical imaging diagnostics	5
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	5
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	5
Empathy in patient care: from ‘Clinical Empathy’ to ‘Empathic Concern’	5
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor	5
Black-box assisted medical decisions: AI power vs. ethical physician care	5
Pathologies and the Healing of the soul: medical terms as metaphors in philosophy	4
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	4
A critical view on using “life not worth living” in the bioethics of assisted reproduction	4
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	4
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	4
The principle of nondirectiveness in genetic counseling. Different meanings and various postulates of normative nature	4
Bodies as communication systems. The relevance of Michel Serres’s philosophy of science for health care	4
The need for “gentle medicine” in a post Covid-19 world	4

Moralization and Mismoralization in Public Health	4
Discovering clinical phronesis	4
A contextual integrity approach to genomic information: what bioethics can learn from big data ethics	4
Tackling vaccine refusal	3
Concepts of self in dementia research: towards theoretical integration	3
Correction: Beyond ethical post-mortems	3
Mandatory vaccination and the ‘seat belt analogy’ argument: a critical analysis in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic	3
How to derive ethically appropriate recommendations for action? A methodology for applied ethics	3
Correction to: From hostile worlds to multiple spheres: towards a normative pragmatics of justice for the Googlization of health	3
Metaphors in medicine	3
The case for biotechnological exceptionalism	3
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	3
Green bioethics	3
ChatGPT: evolution or revolution?	3
Feminist approach to geriatric care: comprehensive geriatric assessment, diversity and intersectionality	3
The practical ethics of repurposing health data: how to acknowledge invisible data work and the need for prioritization	3
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	3
Precaution	3
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	3
Correction: Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	3
Bringing disgust in through the backdoor in healthy food promotion: a phenomenological perspective	3
Medicine and machines	3
Beyond Coronavirus: the metamorphosis as the essence of the phenomenon	3
Patient autonomy in the era of the sustainability crisis	3
A re-evaluation of the modern psychiatric hospital from the standpoint of the Kyoto school’s critique of modernity	2
Navigating the uncommon: challenges in applying evidence-based medicine to rare diseases and the prospects of artificial intelligence solutions	2
Responsible nudging for social good: new healthcare skills for AI-driven digital personal assistants	2
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	2
The impotence of ethics	2
Gentle medicine	2
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	2
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework	2
Nudging to donate organs: do what you like or like what we do?	2
Chronic pain patients’ need for recognition and their current struggle	2
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	2
Institutional design and moral conflict in health care priority-setting	2
The hermeneutics of symptoms	2
A reply to Gillham on the impairment principle	2
Professionalism, Organizationalism and Sur-moralism: Three ethical systems for physicians	2
Cultivating quality awareness in corona times	2
The fertility of moral ambiguity in precision medicine	2
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations	2
The structure of analogical reasoning in bioethics	2
Authenticity and physician-assisted suicide: a reply to Ahlzén	2
The hunger strike in prison: bioethical and medico-legal insights arising from a recent opinion of the Italian national bioethics committee	2
Non-empirical methods for ethics research on digital technologies in medicine, health care and public health: a systematic journal review	2
Autonomy, procedural and substantive: a discussion of the ethics of cognitive enhancement	2
Decision-making approaches in transgender healthcare: conceptual analysis and ethical implications	2
Ethical, legal, and social aspects of symptom checker applications: a scoping review	2
Aging and the prudential lifespan account	2
Enhancing the collectivist critique: accounts of the human enhancement debate	2
To be alive when dying: moral catharsis and hope in patients with limited life prognosis	2