OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Pandemic Dilemma: When Philosophy Conflicts with Public Health	43
Teaching Ethics Consultation Using a Tabletop Exercise	28
The Dobbs Decision: Can It Be Justified by Public Reason?	27
Adolescent OCD Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Identity, Authenticity, and Normalcy in Potential Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment	25
Anything Goes? Analyzing Varied Understandings of Assent	23
Trading Vulnerabilities: Living with Parkinson’s Disease before and after Deep Brain Stimulation	22
Learning to Live with Strange Error: Beyond Trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence Ethics	19
Public Reason Requirements in Bioethical Discourse	18
The Reasonable Content of Conscience in Public Bioethics	18
Applying Rawls’ Theory of Public Reason to Controversies over Parental Surrogacy	17
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence	16
A Critical Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the Consequences of Fetal Personhood	15
Xenotransplantation Can Be Safe—A Reply	15
Seeing and Having Seen: On Suffering and Intersubjectivity	14
A Tale of Two Chimeras: Applying the Six Principles to Human Brain Organoid Xenotransplantation	13
Exit Duty Generator	13
Identifying Relevant Topics for Inclusion in an Ethics Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees: A Survey of Practitioners in the Field	12
On the Ethics of Withholding and Withdrawing Unwarranted Diagnoses	12
The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives	11
Naming and Describing Disability in Law and Medicine	11
Existential Suffering as a Legitimization of Euthanasia	11
Neurorights versus Externalism about Mental Content: Characterizing the ‘Harm’ of Neurotechnological Mind Reading	10
How to Make Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Safer	10
Bioethics and Public Policy: Is There Hope for Public Reason?	9
Goldwater After Trump	8

Wounds and Vulnerabilities. The Participation of Special Operations Forces in Experimental Brain–Computer Interface Research	8
On Matti Häyry’s “Exit Duty Generator”	8
Bioethics transformed: 40 years of the value of life	8
CQH volume 30 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
Well-Being After Severe Brain Injury: What Counts as Good Recovery?	7
Neurolaw—A Call to Action	7
Germline Gene Editing: The Gender Issues	7
Social Support: From Exclusion Criteria to Medical Service	7
Strategic Ambiguity: The Pragmatic Utopianism of Daniel Callahan’s “Bioethics as a Discipline”	7
Developing Novel Tools for Bioethics Education: ACECS and the Visual Analytics Dashboard	7
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.	7
Incidental Findings from Deep Phenotyping Research in Psychiatry: Legal and Ethical Considerations	7
Organ Conscription and Greater Needs	7
Physicians Controlling Women’s Reproductive Choices: The Slow Liberalization of Abortion Laws in Finland	7
“Terminal Anorexia”, Treatment Refusal and Decision-Making Capacity	6
Ghost in the Machine	6
COVID-19: Another Look at Solidarity—ADDENDUM	6
A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor: A Critical Look at Philosophical Assumptions in Medicine, by Dien Ho. New York: Routledge	6
Gratitude	6
Some Methodological Issues in Neuroethics: The Case of Responsibility and Psychopathy	6
Frailty as a Priority-Setting Criterion for Potentially Lifesaving Treatment—Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Circularity, and Indirect Discrimination?	6
Cognitive Enhancement as Transformative Experience: The Challenge of Wrapping One’s Mind Around Enhanced Cognition via Neurostimulation	6
When Is Something an Alternative? A General Account Applied to Animal-Free Alternatives to Animal Research	6
Socrates in the fMRI Scanner: The Neurofoundations of Morality and the Challenge to Ethics	6
Cost-Effectiveness, Incompleteness, and Discrimination	5
Invisible Victims and the Case for OTC SSRIs	5
Should Whole Genome Sequencing be Publicly Funded for Everyone as a Matter of Healthcare Justice?	5
Ethics, Guidelines, Standards, and Policy: Telemedicine, COVID-19, and Broadening the Ethical Scope	5
Daring to Taste: A Review of Living as a Bird by Vinciane Despret	5
Suffering and Intellectual (Dis)Ability	5
Review of Dranove and Burns, 2021. Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America	5
What Should Engagement in Health Research Look Like? Perspectives from People with Lived Experience, Members of the Public, and Engagement Managers	4
What Do Chimeras Think About?	4
More Process, Less Principles: The Ethics of Deploying AI and Robotics in Medicine	4
A Balance of Rights: The Italian Way to the Abortion Controversy	4
Common Morality Principles in Biomedical Ethics: Responses to Critics	4
On the Legal Status of Human Cerebral Organoids: Lessons from Animal Law	4
Euthanasia for the Elderly: Multiple Geriatric Syndromes and Unbearable Suffering According to Dutch Euthanasia Review Committees	4
Precision Medicine and Rough Justice: Wicked Problems	4
Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries: A Supplemental Model for Medical Decision-Making	4
The Ethics of Algorithms in Healthcare	4
Case Vignettes in Transplant Psychiatry Ethics	4
Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine by Pekka Louhiala	4
Bioethics, Ukraine, and the Peril of Silence	4
Human Brain Organoids: Why There Can Be Moral Concerns If They Grow Up in the Lab and Are Transplanted or Destroyed	4
On the Justified Use of AI Decision Support in Evidence-Based Medicine: Validity, Explainability, and Responsibility	4
Rethinking Animal Consciousness Research to Prioritize Well-Being	4
How to Deal with Counter-Examples to Common Morality Theory: A Surprising Result	4
Double Talk	3
QALYs, Disability Discrimination, and the Role of Adaptation in the Capacity to Recover: The Patient-Sensitive Health-Related Quality of Life Account	3

CQH volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Reconsidering Capacity to Appoint a Healthcare Proxy	3
Mutatis mutandis … On Euthanasia and Advanced Dementia in the Netherlands	3
Editorial: The Ethical Implications of Using AI in Medicine	3
Ethical and Equitable Digital Health Research: Ensuring Self-Determination in Data Governance for Racialized Communities	3
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”: Toward (and Back to) a Transparent, Destigmatizing Debate	3
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.	3
How Populism Affects Bioethics	3
Commentary on Rissfeldt: The Small Matter of the Doctor’s Autonomy	3
Leveraging a Sturdy Norm: How Ethicists Really Argue	3
The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith	3
Objective Suffering: What is it? What Could it be?	3
Uterus Transplant: Bioethical and Biolegal Issues from Mexico	3
Subject and Family Perspectives from the Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation Trial for Traumatic Brain Injury: Part II	3