Medicine Health Care and Philosophy

Papers
(The median citation count of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
New frontiers in the moral responsibility debate197
To cure or not to cure104
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations64
Shades of hope: Marcel’s notion of hope in end-of-life care33
On recovery: re-directing the concept by differentiation of its meanings31
Adaptation and illness severity: the significance of suffering24
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder24
Popperian methodology and the Semmelweis case*23
Debates on humanization of human-animal brain chimeras – are we putting the cart before the horses?22
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine21
Maternal epigenetic responsibility: what can we learn from the pandemic?19
The medical gap: intuition in medicine19
Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue?19
Managing feeding needs in advanced dementia: perspectives from ethics of care and ubuntu philosophy19
Ethical challenges of clinical trials with a repurposed drug in outbreaks18
Suicide and Homicide: Symmetries and Asymmetries in Kant’s Ethics17
Who has a meaningful life? A care ethics analysis of selective trait abortion16
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives15
Personhood as projection: the value of multiple conceptions of personhood for understanding the dehumanisation of people living with dementia15
The significance of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of responsibility for medical judgment14
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease14
Potentiality switches and epistemic uncertainty: the Argument from Potential in times of human embryo-like structures14
Sharing a medical decision14
Genetic enhancement from the perspective of transhumanism: exploring a new paradigm of transhuman evolution14
Children with medical complexities: their distinct vulnerability in health systems’ Covid-19 response and their claims of justice in the recovery phase13
Severity and death13
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?12
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised12
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients12
Systemising triage: COVID-19 guidelines and their underlying theories of distributive justice11
Making Biomedical Sciences publications more accessible for machines11
Why a responsibility sensitive healthcare system is not disrespectful11
Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice10
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants10
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications10
“Green informed consent” in the classroom, clinic, and consultation room10
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care10
Who decides who goes first? Taking democracy seriously in micro-allocative healthcare decisions9
Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishing9
Letter to the editor: considerations for ethical incentives in research8
Ethical (mis)use of prehistory8
Medicine, health and the human side: responsibility in medical practice8
Correction to: On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient‑centered care: a case study8
Commodification of biomaterials and data when funding is contingent to transfer in biobank research7
Correction: Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishing7
Controversies between regulations of research ethics and protection of personal data: informed consent at a cross-road7
Epistemologies of evidence-based medicine: a plea for corpus-based conceptual research in the medical humanities7
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice7
Discovering clinical phronesis6
The duty of care and the right to be cared for: is there a duty to treat the unvaccinated?6
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?6
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making6
Toward a new clinical pragmatism: method in clinical ethics consultation6
Epistemic solidarity in medicine and healthcare6
Intergenerational contract in Ageing Democracies: sustainable Welfare Systems and the interests of future generations6
Disease diagnosis and treatment; could theranostics change everything?6
Solidarity and Public Health6
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals5
Phenomenological and existential contributions to the study of erectile dysfunction5
Vision, body and interpretation in medical imaging diagnostics5
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor5
Precision medicine and the fragmentation of solidarity (and justice)5
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?5
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics5
Empathy is not so perfect! -For a descriptive and wide conception of empathy5
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry5
Relating to foetal persons: why women’s Voices come first and last, but not alone in Abortion debates5
The principle of nondirectiveness in genetic counseling. Different meanings and various postulates of normative nature4
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate4
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine4
A contextual integrity approach to genomic information: what bioethics can learn from big data ethics4
Patient autonomy in the era of the sustainability crisis4
The need for “gentle medicine” in a post Covid-19 world4
Black-box assisted medical decisions: AI power vs. ethical physician care4
Moralization and Mismoralization in Public Health4
Correction to: From hostile worlds to multiple spheres: towards a normative pragmatics of justice for the Googlization of health4
The case for biotechnological exceptionalism4
Pathologies and the Healing of the soul: medical terms as metaphors in philosophy4
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative4
Bodies as communication systems. The relevance of Michel Serres’s philosophy of science for health care4
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims4
A critical view on using “life not worth living” in the bioethics of assisted reproduction4
Genomics governance: advancing justice, fairness and equity through the lens of the African communitarian ethic of Ubuntu3
Tackling vaccine refusal3
How to derive ethically appropriate recommendations for action? A methodology for applied ethics3
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain3
Responsible nudging for social good: new healthcare skills for AI-driven digital personal assistants3
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations3
Empathy in patient care: from ‘Clinical Empathy’ to ‘Empathic Concern’3
Precaution3
Decision-making approaches in transgender healthcare: conceptual analysis and ethical implications3
Beyond Coronavirus: the metamorphosis as the essence of the phenomenon3
Professionalism, Organizationalism and Sur-moralism: Three ethical systems for physicians3
Institutional design and moral conflict in health care priority-setting3
Feminist approach to geriatric care: comprehensive geriatric assessment, diversity and intersectionality3
Mandatory vaccination and the ‘seat belt analogy’ argument: a critical analysis in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic3
Concepts of self in dementia research: towards theoretical integration3
Authenticity and physician-assisted suicide: a reply to Ahlzén3
Autonomy, procedural and substantive: a discussion of the ethics of cognitive enhancement3
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework3
To be alive when dying: moral catharsis and hope in patients with limited life prognosis3
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review2
The fertility of moral ambiguity in precision medicine2
A reply to Gillham on the impairment principle2
The structure of analogical reasoning in bioethics2
The need for epistemic humility in AI-assisted pain assessment2
Covid-19 and age discrimination: benefit maximization, fairness, and justified age-based rationing2
Metaphors in medicine2
Bringing disgust in through the backdoor in healthy food promotion: a phenomenological perspective2
Medicine and machines2
Navigating the uncommon: challenges in applying evidence-based medicine to rare diseases and the prospects of artificial intelligence solutions2
Non-empirical methods for ethics research on digital technologies in medicine, health care and public health: a systematic journal review2
Correction: Beyond ethical post-mortems2
Correction: Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics2
ChatGPT: evolution or revolution?2
Towards a concept of embodied autonomy: In what ways can a patient’s body contribute to the autonomy of medical decisions?2
Ethical, legal, and social aspects of symptom checker applications: a scoping review2
Silence as epistemic agency in mania2
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics2
The hunger strike in prison: bioethical and medico-legal insights arising from a recent opinion of the Italian national bioethics committee2
Green bioethics2
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare2
Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account2
The practical ethics of repurposing health data: how to acknowledge invisible data work and the need for prioritization2
Chronic pain patients’ need for recognition and their current struggle2
The hermeneutics of symptoms2
Pandemics and the precautionary principle: an analysis taking the Swedish Corona Commission’s report as a point of departure1
Explaining rule of rescue obligations in healthcare allocation: allowing the patient to tell the right kind of story about their life1
“Ruptured selves: moral injury and wounded identity”1
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments1
Initial heritable genome editing: mapping a responsible pathway from basic research to the clinic1
Authenticity and the argument from testability: a bottom-up approach1
Vulnerability in light of the COVID-19 crisis1
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue1
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach1
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health1
Ethical issues in biomedical research using electronic health records: a systematic review1
The ‘false hope’ argument in discussions on expanded access to investigational drugs: a critical assessment1
Personal identity, possible worlds, and medical ethics1
A critical and systematic literature review of epistemic justice applied to healthcare: recommendations for a patient partnership approach1
Mechanisms of defense in clinical ethics consultation1
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?1
Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine1
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary1
Enhancing the collectivist critique: accounts of the human enhancement debate1
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research1
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 Netherlands1
Is a larger patient benefit always better in healthcare priority setting?1
Wherein is the concept of disease normative? From weak normativity to value-conscious naturalism1
Chronic pain as a blind spot in the diagnosis of a depressed society. On the implications of the connection between depression and chronic pain for interpretations of contemporary society1
Philosophers in research ethics committees—what do they think they’re doing? An empirical-ethical analysis1
Possibilities and paradoxes in medicine: love of order, loveless order and the order of love1
The epistemic harms of direct-to-consumer genetic tests1
Taking the principle of the primacy of the human being seriously1
The impotence of ethics1
The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception1
Gentle medicine1
Borderline personality disorder and moral responsibility1
Not in their hands only: hospital hygiene, evidence and collective moral responsibility1
Healthcare exceptionalism: should healthcare be treated differently when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?1
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