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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Pandemic Dilemma: When Philosophy Conflicts with Public Health	62
Applying Rawls’ Theory of Public Reason to Controversies over Parental Surrogacy	38
The Dobbs Decision: Can It Be Justified by Public Reason?	30
Adolescent OCD Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Identity, Authenticity, and Normalcy in Potential Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment	29
Teaching Ethics Consultation Using a Tabletop Exercise	26
Anything Goes? Analyzing Varied Understandings of Assent	25
Learning to Live with Strange Error: Beyond Trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence Ethics	23
The Reasonable Content of Conscience in Public Bioethics	22
Public Reason Requirements in Bioethical Discourse	20
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence	20
Xenotransplantation Can Be Safe—A Reply	19
Seeing and Having Seen: On Suffering and Intersubjectivity	18
On the Ethics of Withholding and Withdrawing Unwarranted Diagnoses	17
A Tale of Two Chimeras: Applying the Six Principles to Human Brain Organoid Xenotransplantation	17
A Critical Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the Consequences of Fetal Personhood	15
Exit Duty Generator	14
Identifying Relevant Topics for Inclusion in an Ethics Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees: A Survey of Practitioners in the Field	14
Naming and Describing Disability in Law and Medicine	13
The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives	13
Existential Suffering as a Legitimization of Euthanasia	13
Wounds and Vulnerabilities. The Participation of Special Operations Forces in Experimental Brain–Computer Interface Research	11
Neurorights versus Externalism about Mental Content: Characterizing the ‘Harm’ of Neurotechnological Mind Reading	11
Neurolaw—A Call to Action	10
How to Make Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Safer	10
Incidental Findings from Deep Phenotyping Research in Psychiatry: Legal and Ethical Considerations	10

Bioethics and Public Policy: Is There Hope for Public Reason?	10
On Matti Häyry’s “Exit Duty Generator”	10
Strategic Ambiguity: The Pragmatic Utopianism of Daniel Callahan’s “Bioethics as a Discipline”	9
Organ Conscription and Greater Needs	9
Social Support: From Exclusion Criteria to Medical Service	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.	9
Bioethics transformed: 40 years of the value of life	9
COVID-19: Another Look at Solidarity—ADDENDUM	8
When Is Something an Alternative? A General Account Applied to Animal-Free Alternatives to Animal Research	8
A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor: A Critical Look at Philosophical Assumptions in Medicine, by Dien Ho. New York: Routledge	8
Physicians Controlling Women’s Reproductive Choices: The Slow Liberalization of Abortion Laws in Finland	8
Developing Novel Tools for Bioethics Education: ACECS and the Visual Analytics Dashboard	8
Germline Gene Editing: The Gender Issues	8
Daring to Taste: A Review of Living as a Bird by Vinciane Despret	7
Ghost in the Machine	7
“Terminal Anorexia”, Treatment Refusal and Decision-Making Capacity	7
Suffering and Intellectual (Dis)Ability	7
Gratitude	7
Invisible Victims and the Case for OTC SSRIs	7
Review of Dranove and Burns, 2021. Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America	7
Frailty as a Priority-Setting Criterion for Potentially Lifesaving Treatment—Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Circularity, and Indirect Discrimination?	7
Precision Medicine and Rough Justice: Wicked Problems	6
Cognitive Enhancement as Transformative Experience: The Challenge of Wrapping One’s Mind Around Enhanced Cognition via Neurostimulation	6
Bioethics, Ukraine, and the Peril of Silence	6
Cost-Effectiveness, Incompleteness, and Discrimination	6
More Process, Less Principles: The Ethics of Deploying AI and Robotics in Medicine	6
Ethics, Guidelines, Standards, and Policy: Telemedicine, COVID-19, and Broadening the Ethical Scope	6
Should Whole Genome Sequencing be Publicly Funded for Everyone as a Matter of Healthcare Justice?	6
Human Brain Organoids: Why There Can Be Moral Concerns If They Grow Up in the Lab and Are Transplanted or Destroyed	5
Rethinking Animal Consciousness Research to Prioritize Well-Being	5
Euthanasia for the Elderly: Multiple Geriatric Syndromes and Unbearable Suffering According to Dutch Euthanasia Review Committees	5
Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries: A Supplemental Model for Medical Decision-Making	5
Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine by Pekka Louhiala	5
What Should Engagement in Health Research Look Like? Perspectives from People with Lived Experience, Members of the Public, and Engagement Managers	5
What Do Chimeras Think About?	5
The Ethics of Algorithms in Healthcare	5
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.	4
Case Vignettes in Transplant Psychiatry Ethics	4
On the Justified Use of AI Decision Support in Evidence-Based Medicine: Validity, Explainability, and Responsibility	4
QALYs, Disability Discrimination, and the Role of Adaptation in the Capacity to Recover: The Patient-Sensitive Health-Related Quality of Life Account	4
On the Legal Status of Human Cerebral Organoids: Lessons from Animal Law	4
How to Deal with Counter-Examples to Common Morality Theory: A Surprising Result	4
The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith	4
Ethical and Equitable Digital Health Research: Ensuring Self-Determination in Data Governance for Racialized Communities	4
A Balance of Rights: The Italian Way to the Abortion Controversy	4
Uterus Transplant: Bioethical and Biolegal Issues from Mexico	4
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”: Toward (and Back to) a Transparent, Destigmatizing Debate	4
Objective Suffering: What is it? What Could it be?	4
Ethical Issues Concerning Organ Donation	3
Subject and Family Perspectives from the Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation Trial for Traumatic Brain Injury: Part II	3

Leveraging a Sturdy Norm: How Ethicists Really Argue	3
The Picture Theory of Disability	3
Mutatis mutandis … On Euthanasia and Advanced Dementia in the Netherlands	3
What’s Wrong with Restrictivism?	3
The Uncommon Ethics of the Medical Profession: A Response to My Critics	3
Capacity Reconceptualized: From Assessment Tool to Clinical Intervention	3
Public Reason, Bioethics, and Public Policy: A Seductive Delusion or Ambitious Aspiration?	3
Public Reason in Times of Corona: Countering Disinformation in the Netherlands	3
Double Talk	3
CQH volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Reconsidering Capacity to Appoint a Healthcare Proxy	3
Organ Trafficking: Why Do Healthcare Workers Engage in It?	3
Ethical Implications in Making Use of Human Cerebral Organoids for Investigating Stress—Related Mechanisms and Disorders	3
Values of Life: 40 years of The Value of Life	3
Reflection Machines: Supporting Effective Human Oversight Over Medical Decision Support Systems	3
Mobile Health in China: Well Integrated or a New Divide?	3
How Populism Affects Bioethics	3
Editorial: The Ethical Implications of Using AI in Medicine	3
Commentary on Rissfeldt: The Small Matter of the Doctor’s Autonomy	3
Federalism for Bioethics?	3
Assessing Public Reason Approaches to Conscientious Objection in Healthcare	3
Abortion and “Zombie” Laws: Who Is Accountable?	3
Abortion Access and the Benefits and Limitations of Abortion-Permissive Legal Frameworks: Lessons from the United Kingdom	3