OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	213
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	110
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	39
Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation	36
On misempowerment & mobile health	31
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	30
The need for “gentle medicine” in a post Covid-19 world	27
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	26
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	25
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	23
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	23
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	23
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	22
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations	21
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	21
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	20
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework	19
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	19
The hermeneutics of symptoms	18
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	18
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	17
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	15
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	15
Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world	14
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	14

Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	14
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	14
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	13
The impotence of ethics	13
Dying like a dog: the convergence of concepts of a good death in human and veterinary medicine	11
Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	11
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	11
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	9
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	9
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	9
Beyond ethical post-mortems	9
The “Medical friendship” or the true meaning of the doctor-patient relationship from two complementary perspectives: Goya and Laín	9
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	9
Mental health pluralism	8
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	8
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	8
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	8
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	7
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	7
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	7
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	7
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	7
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	7
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	7
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	6
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care	6
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	6
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	6
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	6
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor	6
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	5
Medicine and machines	5
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	5
Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account	5
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	5
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	5
REC review of deceptive studies: diversifying guidance for diverse review needs	5
Chronic illness as transformative activity	5
Why physicians have authority over patients	5
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	5
Professionalism, Organizationalism and Sur-moralism: Three ethical systems for physicians	5
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	5
«Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering	5
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	5
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	5