OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Medicine 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	48
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	18
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	17
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	16
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	16
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	16
Being in Relation, Being through Change	16
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	14
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	14
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	11
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	10
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	10
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	10
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	10
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	9
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	8
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	8
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	8
Opioids, Double Effect, and the Prospects of Hastening Death	7
Disability and the Goods of Life	7
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	7
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	7

The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	7
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	6
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	6
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	6
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
How Not to Defend the Unborn	5
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	5
The Contradictions in the Criteria for Diagnosing Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome as Reflecting Some of the Philosophical Debates about the Threshold between the Normal and the Pathological	5
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	5
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	5
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	5
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	5
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	4
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
On Drugs	4
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	4
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	3
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	3
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	3
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	3
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	3
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	3
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	3
The Morality of Assisted Dying	3
Mental Health Without Well-being	3
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	3
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	3
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	3
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	3
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
The Journal After Fifty Years	3
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	2

Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	2
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	2
Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	2
From a Right to a Preference: Rethinking the Right to Genomic Ignorance	2
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	2
On the Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity: When Is the Right Infringed?	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	2
Political Bioethics	2
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
Disability and the Complexity of Choice in the Ethics of Abortion and Voluntary Euthanasia	2
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	2
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	2
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	2
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	1
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	1
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	1
Psychopathology and Metaphysics: Can One Be a Realist About Mental Disorder?	1
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	1
First-Person Authorization and Family Objections to Organ Donation	1
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	1
Heads, Bodies, Brains, and Selves: Personal Identity and the Ethics of Whole-Body Transplantation	1
To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study	1
Abortion, Impairment, and Well-Being	1
Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole	1
Whole-Body/Head Transplantation: Personal Identity, Experimental Surgery, and Bioethics	1
The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	1
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	1
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	1
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	1
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	1
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body	1
Virtue Monism and Medical Practice: Practical Wisdom as Cross-Situational Ethical Expertise	1
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	1
Civil Liberties in a Lockdown: The Case of COVID-19	1
Bioethics and the Contours of Autonomy	1
Expanding the Use of Continuous Sedation Until Death and Physician-Assisted Suicide	1
Bioethics, Sociality, and Mental Illness	1
Moral Distress, Conscientious Practice, and the Endurance of Ethics in Health Care through Times of Crisis and Calm	1
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	1
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	1
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	1
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	1
Challenges Facing the Appeal to Practical Wisdom in Medicine and Beyond	1
The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human Virtues	1
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	1
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	1
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	1
The Mereotopology of Pregnancy	1
“Death” and Its Discontents	1
Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe	1