OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Statement in Support of Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act and in Opposition to a Proposed Revision	35
Equality in the Informed Consent Process: Competence to Consent, Substitute Decision-Making, and Discrimination of Persons with Mental Disorders	33
Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice	28
Mental Health Without Well-being	26
Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole	14
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	14
Doctor Ex Machina: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care	14
Disability and the Goods of Life	12
A Genealogy of Autonomy: Freedom, Paternalism, and the Future of the Doctor–Patient Relationship	10
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	10
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	10
Miscarriage Is Not a Cause of Death: A Response to Berg’s “Abortion and Miscarriage”	9
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	7
Solastalgia: Climatic Anxiety—An Emotional Geography to Find Our Way Out	7
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Pinning down the Reasonability View	7
Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-Use Research	7
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	7
The Phenomenology of Objectification in and Through Medical Practice and Technology Development	7
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	6
Political Bioethics	6
Religion at Work in Bioethics and Biopolicy: Christian Bioethicists, Secular Language, Suspicious Orthodoxy	6
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	6
Mental Disorder and Suicide: What’s the Connection?	6
Pathologizing Ugliness: A Conceptual Analysis of the Naturalist and Normativist Claims in “Aesthetic Pathology”	6

Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	6
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	5
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	5
Religious Accommodation in Bioethics and the Practice of Medicine	5
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	5
Secular Dreams and Myths of Irreligion: On the Political Control of Religion in Public Bioethics	5
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	5
Uncertainty, Evidence, and the Integration of Machine Learning into Medical Practice	5
Homo religiosus: The Soul of Bioethics	5
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	5
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	4
On the Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity: When Is the Right Infringed?	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
Moral Injury, Moral Identity, and “Dirty Hands” in War Fighting and Police Work	4
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body	4
Questionable Agreement: The Experience of Depression and DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder Criteria	4
Meaning and Affect in the Placebo Effect	4
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	4
Is Death Irreversible?	4
Trapped in the Wrong Body? Transgender Identity Claims, Body-Self Dualism, and the False Promise of Gender Reassignment Therapy	4
Access-to-Care and Conscience: Conflicting or Coherent?	4
Reevaluating Conscience Clauses	4
Prudence in Shared Decision-Making: The Missing Link between the “Technically Correct” and the “Morally Good” in Medical Decision-Making	4
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	4
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	3
The Importance of Clear and Careful Thinking in Clinical Ethics	3
The Moral Authority of Consensus	3
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	3
Toward a Hybrid Theory of How to Allocate Health-related Resources	3
A Human Right to What Kind of Medicine?	3
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	3
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	3
Which Kind of Body in “Mental” Pathologies? Phenomenological Insights on the Nature of the Disrupted Self	3
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	3
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	3
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	3
Opioids, Double Effect, and the Prospects of Hastening Death	3
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	3
How the Body Became Integrated: Cybernetics in the History of the Brain Death Debate	3
The Most Good You Can Do with Your Kidneys: Effective Altruism and the Organ-Shortage Problem	3
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	3
Irreligion, Alfie Evans, and the Future of Bioethics	3
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	3
Disability and the Complexity of Choice in the Ethics of Abortion and Voluntary Euthanasia	3
Challenge Trials: What Are the Ethical Problems?	3
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	3
Alzheimer’s, Advance Directives, and Interpretive Authority	3
Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe	3
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	3
The Fraught Notion of a “Good Death” in Pediatrics	3

Crisis in Psychiatric Diagnosis? Epistemological Humility in the DSM Era	3
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	3
The Desirability of Difference: Georges Canguilhem and Body Integrity Identity Disorder	3
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	2
Rationally Navigating Subjective Preferences in Memory Modification	2
Rethinking Categories and Dimensions in the DSM	2
Priority for Organ Donors in the Allocation of Organs: Priority Rules from the Perspective of Equality of Opportunity	2
Why Medicine Needs a Theology of Monstrosity	2
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	2
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	2
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	2
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	2
Health-Care Professionals and Lethal Injection: An Ethical Inquiry	2
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	2
Harming and Wronging in Creating	2
Fewer Mistakes and Presumed Consent	2
Moral Distress, Conscientious Practice, and the Endurance of Ethics in Health Care through Times of Crisis and Calm	2
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	2
Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment	2
Re-asserting the Specialness of Health Care	2
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	2
Miscarriage, Abortion, and Disease	2
Whose (Ir)Religion? Which Bioethics?	2
On Drugs	2
Take Pity: What Disability Rights Can Learn from Religious Charity	2
Don’t Downplay “Play”: Reasons Why Health Systems Should Protect Childhood Play	2