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

Article	Citations
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	207
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	107
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	78
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	36
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	36
The case for biotechnological exceptionalism	29
The need for “gentle medicine” in a post Covid-19 world	28
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	25
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	24
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	24
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework	21
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	21
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	21
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	21
The hermeneutics of symptoms	20
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations	19
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	16
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	16
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	16
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	16
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	15
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	15
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	15
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	15
Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	14

Ethical issues in biomedical research using electronic health records: a systematic review	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	14
Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	13
Dying like a dog: the convergence of concepts of a good death in human and veterinary medicine	13
The impotence of ethics	13
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	12
Beyond ethical post-mortems	11
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	10
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	10
Mental health pluralism	9
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	9
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	9
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	9
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	8
The “Medical friendship” or the true meaning of the doctor-patient relationship from two complementary perspectives: Goya and Laín	8
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	8
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	8
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	7
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	7
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	7
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	7
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	7
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	7
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	7
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	7
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	6
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor	6
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	6
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	6
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Phenomenological and existential contributions to the study of erectile dysfunction	6
Professionalism, Organizationalism and Sur-moralism: Three ethical systems for physicians	5
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	5
Chronic illness as transformative activity	5
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	5
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	5
Medicine and machines	5
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	5
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	5
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	5
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	5
Bringing disgust in through the backdoor in healthy food promotion: a phenomenological perspective	5
Enhancing the collectivist critique: accounts of the human enhancement debate	5
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	5