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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Pandemic Dilemma: When Philosophy Conflicts with Public Health	56
The Reasonable Content of Conscience in Public Bioethics	33
Learning to Live with Strange Error: Beyond Trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence Ethics	28
Public Reason Requirements in Bioethical Discourse	27
Applying Rawls’ Theory of Public Reason to Controversies over Parental Surrogacy	25
The Dobbs Decision: Can It Be Justified by Public Reason?	23
Anything Goes? Analyzing Varied Understandings of Assent	23
Adolescent OCD Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Identity, Authenticity, and Normalcy in Potential Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment	20
Teaching Ethics Consultation Using a Tabletop Exercise	19
Xenotransplantation Can Be Safe—A Reply	18
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence	18
Seeing and Having Seen: On Suffering and Intersubjectivity	16
A Critical Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the Consequences of Fetal Personhood	15
On the Ethics of Withholding and Withdrawing Unwarranted Diagnoses	15
Exit Duty Generator	14
Identifying Relevant Topics for Inclusion in an Ethics Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees: A Survey of Practitioners in the Field	13
A Tale of Two Chimeras: Applying the Six Principles to Human Brain Organoid Xenotransplantation	13
Existential Suffering as a Legitimization of Euthanasia	12
The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives	12
Bioethics and Public Policy: Is There Hope for Public Reason?	10
Wounds and Vulnerabilities. The Participation of Special Operations Forces in Experimental Brain–Computer Interface Research	10
How to Make Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Safer	10
Naming and Describing Disability in Law and Medicine	10
On Matti Häyry’s “Exit Duty Generator”	10
Neurorights versus Externalism about Mental Content: Characterizing the ‘Harm’ of Neurotechnological Mind Reading	10

Neurolaw—A Call to Action	9
Incidental Findings from Deep Phenotyping Research in Psychiatry: Legal and Ethical Considerations	9
Strategic Ambiguity: The Pragmatic Utopianism of Daniel Callahan’s “Bioethics as a Discipline”	9
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.	8
Germline Gene Editing: The Gender Issues	8
Social Support: From Exclusion Criteria to Medical Service	8
Organ Conscription and Greater Needs	8
Bioethics transformed: 40 years of the value of life	8
Physicians Controlling Women’s Reproductive Choices: The Slow Liberalization of Abortion Laws in Finland	8
Frailty as a Priority-Setting Criterion for Potentially Lifesaving Treatment—Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Circularity, and Indirect Discrimination?	7
COVID-19: Another Look at Solidarity—ADDENDUM	7
When Is Something an Alternative? A General Account Applied to Animal-Free Alternatives to Animal Research	7
Gratitude	7
A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor: A Critical Look at Philosophical Assumptions in Medicine, by Dien Ho. New York: Routledge	7
Ghost in the Machine	7
Developing Novel Tools for Bioethics Education: ACECS and the Visual Analytics Dashboard	7
“Terminal Anorexia”, Treatment Refusal and Decision-Making Capacity	6
Review of Dranove and Burns, 2021. Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America	6
Should Whole Genome Sequencing be Publicly Funded for Everyone as a Matter of Healthcare Justice?	6
Precision Medicine and Rough Justice: Wicked Problems	6
Invisible Victims and the Case for OTC SSRIs	6
Cost-Effectiveness, Incompleteness, and Discrimination	6
Bioethics, Ukraine, and the Peril of Silence	6
Daring to Taste: A Review of Living as a Bird by Vinciane Despret	6
Suffering and Intellectual (Dis)Ability	6
Euthanasia for the Elderly: Multiple Geriatric Syndromes and Unbearable Suffering According to Dutch Euthanasia Review Committees	5
Cognitive Enhancement as Transformative Experience: The Challenge of Wrapping One’s Mind Around Enhanced Cognition via Neurostimulation	5
Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine by Pekka Louhiala	5
More Process, Less Principles: The Ethics of Deploying AI and Robotics in Medicine	5
Ethics, Guidelines, Standards, and Policy: Telemedicine, COVID-19, and Broadening the Ethical Scope	5
Human Brain Organoids: Why There Can Be Moral Concerns If They Grow Up in the Lab and Are Transplanted or Destroyed	5
Uterus Transplant: Bioethical and Biolegal Issues from Mexico	4
Rethinking Animal Consciousness Research to Prioritize Well-Being	4
What Do Chimeras Think About?	4
Case Vignettes in Transplant Psychiatry Ethics	4
Objective Suffering: What is it? What Could it be?	4
The Ethics of Algorithms in Healthcare	4
On the Justified Use of AI Decision Support in Evidence-Based Medicine: Validity, Explainability, and Responsibility	4
A Balance of Rights: The Italian Way to the Abortion Controversy	4
How to Deal with Counter-Examples to Common Morality Theory: A Surprising Result	4
What Should Engagement in Health Research Look Like? Perspectives from People with Lived Experience, Members of the Public, and Engagement Managers	4
On the Legal Status of Human Cerebral Organoids: Lessons from Animal Law	4
Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries: A Supplemental Model for Medical Decision-Making	4
How Populism Affects Bioethics	4
Commentary on Rissfeldt: The Small Matter of the Doctor’s Autonomy	3
QALYs, Disability Discrimination, and the Role of Adaptation in the Capacity to Recover: The Patient-Sensitive Health-Related Quality of Life Account	3
The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith	3
Leveraging a Sturdy Norm: How Ethicists Really Argue	3
Double Talk	3
Mutatis mutandis … On Euthanasia and Advanced Dementia in the Netherlands	3

Editorial: The Ethical Implications of Using AI in Medicine	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
Mobile Health in China: Well Integrated or a New Divide?	3
CQH volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Public Reason in Times of Corona: Countering Disinformation in the Netherlands	3
Ethical Issues Concerning Organ Donation	3
What’s Wrong with Restrictivism?	3
Reconsidering Capacity to Appoint a Healthcare Proxy	3
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”: Toward (and Back to) a Transparent, Destigmatizing Debate	3
Ethical and Equitable Digital Health Research: Ensuring Self-Determination in Data Governance for Racialized Communities	3
Subject and Family Perspectives from the Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation Trial for Traumatic Brain Injury: Part II	3
The Picture Theory of Disability	3
Federalism for Bioethics?	3