OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	40
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	38
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	17
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	15
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	14
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	14
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	14
The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	14
Evictionism, Libertarianism, and Duties of the Fetus	12
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	10
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	10
Bioethics: Shaping Medical Practice and Taking Diversity Seriously	10
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	9
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	9
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	9
Communicating Genetic Information: An Empathy-based Framework	7
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	7
The Desirability of Difference: Georges Canguilhem and Body Integrity Identity Disorder	7
Children, Fetuses, and the Non-Existent: Moral Obligations and the Beginning of Life	7
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	7
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	7
Religious Accommodation in Bioethics and the Practice of Medicine	7
Moral Injury, Moral Identity, and “Dirty Hands” in War Fighting and Police Work	6
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	6
To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study	6

Mental Disorder and Suicide: What’s the Connection?	6
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	6
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	6
Heads, Bodies, Brains, and Selves: Personal Identity and the Ethics of Whole-Body Transplantation	6
How Not to Defend the Unborn	5
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	5
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	5
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	5
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
Political Bioethics	5
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	4
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	4
Being in Relation, Being through Change	4
Thank You to Our Guest Reviewers	4
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	4
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	4
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	4
Take Pity: What Disability Rights Can Learn from Religious Charity	4
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	4
The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human Virtues	4
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	3
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	3
Which Kind of Body in “Mental” Pathologies? Phenomenological Insights on the Nature of the Disrupted Self	3
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	3
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	3
A Genealogy of Autonomy: Freedom, Paternalism, and the Future of the Doctor–Patient Relationship	3
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	3
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	3
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
Civil Liberties in a Lockdown: The Case of COVID-19	3
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	3
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	3
How to Exercise Integrity in Medical Billing: Don’t Distort Prices, Don’t Free-Ride on Other Physicians	3
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	3
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	3
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	3
Don’t Downplay “Play”: Reasons Why Health Systems Should Protect Childhood Play	3
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	3
Phenomenology of Illness and the Need for a More Comprehensive Approach: Lessons from a Discussion of Plato’sCharmides	3
Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment	3
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	3
On Drugs	3
Disability, Offense, and the Expressivist Objection to Medical Aid in Dying	3
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	3
Reevaluating Conscience Clauses	3