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 2021-09-01 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