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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	22
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm	22
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	20
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	20
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	19
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	19
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	17
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	13
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	12
Being in Relation, Being through Change	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
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	11
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	11
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	10
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	9
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	8
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
Disability and the Goods of Life	7
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	7
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6

Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	6
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	6
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	6
Compassionate Understanding	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	5
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
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
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
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	5
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	5
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	5
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	4
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	4
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	4
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	4
The Morality of Assisted Dying	4
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	4
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
On Drugs	4
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	4
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	3
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
A Matter of Trust: Principles to Ethically Assess AI in Health Care	3
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	3
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	3
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal	3
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	3
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
Epistemically Transformative Medical Procedures and Informed Consent	3
All Things Considered: Accounting for Omissions in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine	3
The Journal After Fifty Years	3
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	3
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	3
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	3
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	3
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	3

A Matter of Judgment? Second-Hand Medical Knowledge and Professional Responsibility	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	2
Reframing Ongoing Debates: New Perspectives Modifying Moral Insights to Improve Patient Care	2
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	2
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	2
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	2
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	2
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	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
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	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
To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study	1
“Death” and Its Discontents	1
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	1
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	1
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	1
Pellegrino and Thomasma’s Anatomy of Clinical Judgments Revisited	1
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body	1
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	1
Heads, Bodies, Brains, and Selves: Personal Identity and the Ethics of Whole-Body Transplantation	1
The Mereotopology of Pregnancy	1
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	1
Expanding the Use of Continuous Sedation Until Death and Physician-Assisted Suicide	1
Whole-Body/Head Transplantation: Personal Identity, Experimental Surgery, and Bioethics	1
Political Bioethics	1
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	1
First-Person Authorization and Family Objections to Organ Donation	1
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	1
The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human Virtues	1
AI and Healthcare Disparities: Lessons from a Cautionary Tale in Knee Radiology	1
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	1
Bioethics and the Contours of Autonomy	1
Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe	1
Abortion, Impairment, and Well-Being	1
Psychopathology and Metaphysics: Can One Be a Realist About Mental Disorder?	1
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	1
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	1
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	1
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	1
The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	1
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	1