OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	249
Chronic pain and unrecognized grief: epistemic barriers to personal and social recognition	57
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	54
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	48
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	48
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	40
Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation	39
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	31
Reclaiming human dignity: a critical review of contemporary theories in light of ontological foundations	29
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	27
On misempowerment & mobile health	27
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	27
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	26
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	26
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	25
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	21
The hermeneutics of symptoms	20
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	19
Cure as medicine’s constitutive aim: a defence of the refined curative thesis	18
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	16
The impotence of ethics	16
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	16
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	16
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	15
Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world	15

Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	15
Open-ended eudemonism in healthcare: epistemological and procedural challenges	15
Color and health inequities	14
Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	14
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	14
Algorithmic gaze and subject occlusion: a medical ethical critique of artificial intelligence diagnosis and treatment from a foucaultian perspective	13
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	12
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	12
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	11
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	11
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	11
Beyond ethical post-mortems	11
Mental health pluralism	10
Can health technologies be “care optimizers”? A normative evaluation of digital health technologies in light of postphenomenological reflections	10
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	10
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	10
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	9
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	9
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	9
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	9
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	9
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	8
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	8
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	8
White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research	8
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	8
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	8
Making grandchildren. Is there an interest in becoming a grandparent?	8
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	8
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	7
Epistemic disadvantage and looping breaks: a reply to Gauld et al.	7
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	7
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	7
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	7
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	6
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	6
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	6
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	6
REC review of deceptive studies: diversifying guidance for diverse review needs	6
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	6
Is there a judgment here? Why medicine cannot endure decision-making without a judging subject in the age of AI	6
Chronic illness as transformative activity	6
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	6