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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
CQH volume 30 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	37
The Dobbs Decision: Can It Be Justified by Public Reason?	33
The Pandemic Dilemma: When Philosophy Conflicts with Public Health	30
Teaching Ethics Consultation Using a Tabletop Exercise	25
Anything Goes? Analyzing Varied Understandings of Assent	24
Trading Vulnerabilities: Living with Parkinson’s Disease before and after Deep Brain Stimulation	23
Adolescent OCD Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Identity, Authenticity, and Normalcy in Potential Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment	22
Learning to Live with Strange Error: Beyond Trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence Ethics	18
The Reasonable Content of Conscience in Public Bioethics	18
Public Reason Requirements in Bioethical Discourse	18
Applying Rawls’ Theory of Public Reason to Controversies over Parental Surrogacy	18
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence	17
Xenotransplantation Can Be Safe—A Reply	15
A Tale of Two Chimeras: Applying the Six Principles to Human Brain Organoid Xenotransplantation	13
Seeing and Having Seen: On Suffering and Intersubjectivity	12
Exit Duty Generator	11
A Critical Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the Consequences of Fetal Personhood	11
The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives	11
On the Ethics of Withholding and Withdrawing Unwarranted Diagnoses	11
Naming and Describing Disability in Law and Medicine	11
Identifying Relevant Topics for Inclusion in an Ethics Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees: A Survey of Practitioners in the Field	11
Existential Suffering as a Legitimization of Euthanasia	11
How to Make Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Safer	9
Neurorights versus Externalism about Mental Content: Characterizing the ‘Harm’ of Neurotechnological Mind Reading	9
Wounds and Vulnerabilities. The Participation of Special Operations Forces in Experimental Brain–Computer Interface Research	9

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

Ethical and Equitable Digital Health Research: Ensuring Self-Determination in Data Governance for Racialized Communities	3
A Balance of Rights: The Italian Way to the Abortion Controversy	3
Case Vignettes in Transplant Psychiatry Ethics	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
The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith	3
Commentary on Rissfeldt: The Small Matter of the Doctor’s Autonomy	3
On the Justified Use of AI Decision Support in Evidence-Based Medicine: Validity, Explainability, and Responsibility	3
How to Deal with Counter-Examples to Common Morality Theory: A Surprising Result	3
Reconsidering Capacity to Appoint a Healthcare Proxy	3
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”: Toward (and Back to) a Transparent, Destigmatizing Debate	3
QALYs, Disability Discrimination, and the Role of Adaptation in the Capacity to Recover: The Patient-Sensitive Health-Related Quality of Life Account	3