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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	52
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	21
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	20
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	20
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	18
Being in Relation, Being through Change	17
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	17
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	17
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	16
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	12
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	12
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	11
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	11
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	11
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	10
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	10
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	10
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	8
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	8
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	7
Disability and the Goods of Life	7
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	7
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7

Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	6
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	6
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	6
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	5
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	5
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	5
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	5
The Logic of Pregnancy	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
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	4
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	4
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	4
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	4
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
On Drugs	4
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	3
The Journal After Fifty Years	3
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	3
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	3
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	3
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	3
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	3
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	3
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	3
The Morality of Assisted Dying	3
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	3
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	3
Mental Health Without Well-being	3
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	3
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	3
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	2
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	2

From a Right to a Preference: Rethinking the Right to Genomic Ignorance	2
Reframing Ongoing Debates: New Perspectives Modifying Moral Insights to Improve Patient Care	2
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	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
Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	2
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	2
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
The Mereotopology of Pregnancy	1
Expanding the Use of Continuous Sedation Until Death and Physician-Assisted Suicide	1
The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	1
Moral Distress, Conscientious Practice, and the Endurance of Ethics in Health Care through Times of Crisis and Calm	1
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	1
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	1
Political Bioethics	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
The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human Virtues	1
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	1
Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole	1
Bioethics, Sociality, and Mental Illness	1
“Death” and Its Discontents	1
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	1
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	1
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	1
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	1
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	1
Challenges Facing the Appeal to Practical Wisdom in Medicine and Beyond	1
Civil Liberties in a Lockdown: The Case of COVID-19	1
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	1
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	1
Abortion, Impairment, and Well-Being	1
Bioethics and the Contours of Autonomy	1
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	1
Whole-Body/Head Transplantation: Personal Identity, Experimental Surgery, and Bioethics	1
Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe	1
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	1
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	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