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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	51
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	19
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	18
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	17
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	17
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	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
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	12
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	12
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	11
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	10
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	10
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	10
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	8
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	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
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	7

Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	6
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	6
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	6
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	5
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	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
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	5
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	5
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
On Drugs	4
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	4
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	4
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	4