OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 2. 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
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	235
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	49
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	45
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	42
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	38
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	37
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	36
Reclaiming human dignity: a critical review of contemporary theories in light of ontological foundations	32
On misempowerment & mobile health	25
Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation	25
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	24
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	24
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	23
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework	22
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	22
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	21
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations	20
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	18
Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world	17
The hermeneutics of symptoms	17
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	16
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	15
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	15
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	15
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	14

The impotence of ethics	14
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	13
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	13
Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	12
Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	11
Open-ended eudemonism in healthcare: epistemological and procedural challenges	11
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	10
Algorithmic gaze and subject occlusion: a medical ethical critique of artificial intelligence diagnosis and treatment from a foucaultian perspective	10
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	10
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	9
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	9
Beyond ethical post-mortems	9
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	9
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	9
Mental health pluralism	9
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	8
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	8
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	8
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	8
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	8
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	7
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	7
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	7
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	7
Making grandchildren. Is there an interest in becoming a grandparent?	7
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	7
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	7
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	7
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	7
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	6
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	6
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	6
Medicine and machines	6
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	6
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	6
REC review of deceptive studies: diversifying guidance for diverse review needs	6
Evaluating emotions in medical practice: a critical examination of ‘clinical detachment’ and emotional attunement in orthopaedic surgery	5
A fair exchange: why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated	5
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	5
Totalitarian technics: the hidden cost of AI scribes in healthcare	5
Revisiting respect for persons: conceptual analysis and implications for clinical practice	5
On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient-centered care: a case study	5
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	5
Chronic illness as transformative activity	5
«Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering	5
The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	5
Historical empathy and medicine: Pathography and empathy in Sophocles’ Philoctetes	5
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	5

Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account	5
Why physicians have authority over patients	5
Vulnerability, ageism, and health: is it helpful to label older adults as a vulnerable group in health care?	4
Reversibility of neurotechnological interventions: conceptual and ethical issues	4
Correction to: Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice	4
The Ethical Obligation for Research During Public Health Emergencies: Insights From the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
The continuing formation of relational caring professionals	4
Relational rehabilitation: competencies and qualities needed in psychosocial rehabilitation when responding to hope and hopelessness	4
Moral reasoning skills: what they are and how they can be furthered in health professions education	4
A normativity mapping review on end-of-life care in long-term care institutions by authors from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland	4
What can Adorno’s understanding of aesthetic experience offer for the health and medical humanities?	4
Integrating ethics in digital mental healthcare technologies: a principle-based empirically grounded roadmap approach	4
Ethical competency	3
Suicide and Homicide: Symmetries and Asymmetries in Kant’s Ethics	3
The significance of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of responsibility for medical judgment	3
Genetic enhancement from the perspective of transhumanism: exploring a new paradigm of transhuman evolution	3
Correction to: On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient‑centered care: a case study	3
The obscured face in video consultations. A Levinasian analysis	3
Towards trust-based governance of health data research	3
Managing feeding needs in advanced dementia: perspectives from ethics of care and ubuntu philosophy	3
New frontiers in the moral responsibility debate	3
Healthcare providers' advocacy approaches and ethical challenges in delivering healthcare to undocumented migrants: a scoping review	3
Differences in the EU regulations for biomedical research on humans and animals: an ethical analysis	3
The ethics of Wegovy: promoting autonomy in pediatric care	3
Towards a shared and supported decision-making model: fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care	3
Popperian methodology and the Semmelweis case*	3
Why a responsibility sensitive healthcare system is not disrespectful	3
Who has a meaningful life? A care ethics analysis of selective trait abortion	3
“Green informed consent” in the classroom, clinic, and consultation room	3
Bodies as communication systems. The relevance of Michel Serres’s philosophy of science for health care	3
Moralization and Mismoralization in Public Health	2
Authenticity and the argument from testability: a bottom-up approach	2
The significance of the distinction between “having a life” vs. “being alive” in end-of-life care	2
Justifying a morally permissible breach of contract: kantian ethics, nozickian justice, and vaccine patents	2
Ethico-Political aspects of clinical judgment in opportunistic screening for cognitive impairment: Arendtian and aristotelian perspectives	2
The ‘false hope’ argument in discussions on expanded access to investigational drugs: a critical assessment	2
The practical ethics of repurposing health data: how to acknowledge invisible data work and the need for prioritization	2
Navigating the uncommon: challenges in applying evidence-based medicine to rare diseases and the prospects of artificial intelligence solutions	2
Toward a new clinical pragmatism: method in clinical ethics consultation	2
Personal identity, possible worlds, and medical ethics	2
Against age limits for men in reproductive care	2
Defending explicability as a principle for the ethics of artificial intelligence in medicine	2
Kidney stone disease: phenomenological perspectives	2
Should responsibility be used as a tiebreaker in allocation of deceased donor organs for patients suffering from alcohol-related end-stage liver disease?	2
Green bioethics	2
Institutional design and moral conflict in health care priority-setting	2
Solidarity and Public Health	2
Social aspects of privacy in technologically assisted dementia care	2
“Ruptured selves: moral injury and wounded identity”	2
Intergenerational healthcare ethics: considering conceptualizations of generations and their collective and temporal dimensions	2
Healthcare exceptionalism: should healthcare be treated differently when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?	2
Love and romantic relationship in the domain of medicine	2
Correction: Beyond ethical post-mortems	2
Medicine, health and the human side: responsibility in medical practice	2