OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	252
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	63
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	54
Chronic pain and unrecognized grief: epistemic barriers to personal and social recognition	52
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	42
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	40
Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation	33
On misempowerment & mobile health	31
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	31
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	27
The interrelationship between soul and body: Plato as pioneer of the philosophy of health	27
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	26
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	26
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	21
Reclaiming human dignity: a critical review of contemporary theories in light of ontological foundations	21
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	21
Cure as medicine’s constitutive aim: a defence of the refined curative thesis	20
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	19
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	17
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	17
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	15
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	15
The impotence of ethics	15
Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	15
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	15

Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	14
Open-ended eudemonism in healthcare: epistemological and procedural challenges	14
Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world	14
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	14
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	13
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	12
Color and health inequities	11
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	11
Algorithmic gaze and subject occlusion: a medical ethical critique of artificial intelligence diagnosis and treatment from a foucaultian perspective	11
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	10
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	10
Mental health pluralism	10
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	10
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	10
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	10
Can health technologies be “care optimizers”? A normative evaluation of digital health technologies in light of postphenomenological reflections	9
Navigating patients’ refusal of information in clinical practice - a clinical scenario	9
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	9
Beyond ethical post-mortems	9
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	8
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	8
Epistemic disadvantage and looping breaks: a reply to Gauld et al.	8
White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research	8
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	8
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	8
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	8
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	8
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	7
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	7
Making grandchildren. Is there an interest in becoming a grandparent?	7
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	7
Is there a judgment here? Why medicine cannot endure decision-making without a judging subject in the age of AI	7
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	6
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	6
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	6
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	6
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	6
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	6
REC review of deceptive studies: diversifying guidance for diverse review needs	6
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	6
Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account	5
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	5
On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient-centered care: a case study	5
A normativity mapping review on end-of-life care in long-term care institutions by authors from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland	5
The continuing formation of relational caring professionals	5
A fair exchange: why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated	5
Totalitarian technics: the hidden cost of AI scribes in healthcare	5
«Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering	5

Postmortem reproduction: the bioethics of reproductive wills	5
Improving bioethics by clarifying and elaborating its methodology: a response to Gomez-Virseda and colleagues	5
The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	5
An analysis of Heidegger’s concept of angst and death in the Ménière’s disease patient	5
Chronic illness as transformative activity	5
Vulnerability, ageism, and health: is it helpful to label older adults as a vulnerable group in health care?	5
What can Adorno’s understanding of aesthetic experience offer for the health and medical humanities?	5
Evaluating emotions in medical practice: a critical examination of ‘clinical detachment’ and emotional attunement in orthopaedic surgery	5
Are you weary of illness? Coping and existential positioning in life with myasthenia gravis	5