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 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 Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	10
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
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
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
On Drugs	4
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 Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	3
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	3
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	3
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	3
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	3
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	3
The Morality of Assisted Dying	3
Mental Health Without Well-being	3
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	3
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	3
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	3
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	3
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	3
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	3
The Journal After Fifty Years	3
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	3

Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	2
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	2
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	2
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	2
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	2
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	2
On the Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity: When Is the Right Infringed?	2
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	2
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Disability and the Complexity of Choice in the Ethics of Abortion and Voluntary Euthanasia	2
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	2
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	2
From a Right to a Preference: Rethinking the Right to Genomic Ignorance	2
Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	2
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	2
Political Bioethics	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2