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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	31
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	26
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm	24
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	21
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	21
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	20
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	18
Being in Relation, Being through Change	18
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	15
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	15
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	14
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	13
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	9
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	9
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	9
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	9
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	8
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	8
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	8
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	7
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	7
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	7

Biohacking Love and the Norms of Relationships	7
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	7
Is Death Irreversible?	7
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	7
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	7
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	7
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	7
The Logic of Pregnancy	6
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	6
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	6
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	6
Compassionate Understanding	6
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	6
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	6
The Case Against Legalizing Medically Assisted Suicide or Voluntary Active Euthanasia in Islamic Regions	5
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	5
The Morality of Assisted Dying	5
Mental Illness: A Deviation from Phenomenological, Rather than Moral, Norms?	5
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	5
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	5
On Drugs	5
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	5
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	5
What Should We Believe? The Case of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates	5
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	5
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	5
Reproducing Anachronism: Ageing, Fertility and Inequality in Reproductive Governance	5
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal	5
Fair Consent Transactions and Ethical Pluralism	5
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	5
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	5
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	4
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	4
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	4
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	4
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	4
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	4
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	4
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	4
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	4
The Journal After Fifty Years	4
All Things Considered: Accounting for Omissions in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine	4
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	4
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	4
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	3
Parfitian Priority, Gene Therapy, and Disability	3
Epistemically Transformative Medical Procedures and Informed Consent	3
Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	3
Baby Parts	3
A Matter of Trust: Principles to Ethically Assess AI in Health Care	3

Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	3
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	3
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	3
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	3
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	3
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	3
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	3
Reframing Ongoing Debates: New Perspectives Modifying Moral Insights to Improve Patient Care	3
A Matter of Judgment? Second-Hand Medical Knowledge and Professional Responsibility	3
Ethical Examination of Genetic Enhancement from the Perspective of Confucian Human Dignity	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	2
Apart Together: Getting to the Heart of Biofixture Status	2
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	2
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	2
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	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
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	2
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	2
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	2