OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is 4. 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
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	43
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	17
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	17
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
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	16
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	15
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	14
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	14
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	11
The Most Good You Can Do with Your Kidneys: Effective Altruism and the Organ-Shortage Problem	10
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	10
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	10
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	9
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	9
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	9
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	9
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	8
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	8
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	8
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	8
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	7
Disability and the Goods of Life	7
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	7
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7

A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	6
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	6
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
Opioids, Double Effect, and the Prospects of Hastening Death	6
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	6
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	5
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
How Not to Defend the Unborn	5
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	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
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	5
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	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 Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	4
The Logic of Pregnancy	4
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	4
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	4
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	4
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
On Drugs	4