OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 6. 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
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	256
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	73
Chronic pain and unrecognized grief: epistemic barriers to personal and social recognition	59
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	56
How ignoring the harm of killing undermines the ethical legitimacy of animal research: a case study from Switzerland	46
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	44
Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation	39
The interrelationship between soul and body: Plato as pioneer of the philosophy of health	33
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	32
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	29
Reclaiming human dignity: a critical review of contemporary theories in light of ontological foundations	28
On misempowerment & mobile health	27
Post-trial obligations and participant enrollment in brain pioneering research: should we expand inclusion criteria?	25
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	25
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	24
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	22
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	22
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	20
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	19
Cure as medicine’s constitutive aim: a defence of the refined curative thesis	17
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	16
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	16
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	16
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	15
Open-ended eudemonism in healthcare: epistemological and procedural challenges	15

The impotence of ethics	15
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	15
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	14
Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world	13
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	13
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	13
Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	12
Algorithmic gaze and subject occlusion: a medical ethical critique of artificial intelligence diagnosis and treatment from a foucaultian perspective	12
Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	12
Color and health inequities	12
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	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
How to deal with controversies in the evaluation of medicalization: a case study of PMS and PMDD	11
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	10
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	10
Beyond ethical post-mortems	10
Mental health pluralism	10
Navigating patients’ refusal of information in clinical practice - a clinical scenario	10
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	9
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	9
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	9
Can health technologies be “care optimizers”? A normative evaluation of digital health technologies in light of postphenomenological reflections	9
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	9
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	8
White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research	8
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	8
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	8
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	8
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	7
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	7
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	7
Epistemic disadvantage and looping breaks: a reply to Gauld et al.	7
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	7
Making grandchildren. Is there an interest in becoming a grandparent?	7
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	6
Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account	6
«Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering	6
The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	6
Is there a judgment here? Why medicine cannot endure decision-making without a judging subject in the age of AI	6
REC review of deceptive studies: diversifying guidance for diverse review needs	6
An analysis of Heidegger’s concept of angst and death in the Ménière’s disease patient	6
Totalitarian technics: the hidden cost of AI scribes in healthcare	6
A fair exchange: why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated	6
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	6
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	6
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	6
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	6
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	6
Chronic illness as transformative activity	6

On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient-centered care: a case study	6
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	6