OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is 1. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral Injury, Moral Identity, and “Dirty Hands” in War Fighting and Police Work	35
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	33
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	28
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	26
Children, Fetuses, and the Non-Existent: Moral Obligations and the Beginning of Life	15
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	14
To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study	14
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	14
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	11
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	10
Evictionism, Libertarianism, and Duties of the Fetus	10
Bioethics: Shaping Medical Practice and Taking Diversity Seriously	10
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	10
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	9
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	7
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	7
How Not to Defend the Unborn	7
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	7
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	7
Religious Accommodation in Bioethics and the Practice of Medicine	6
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	6
Communicating Genetic Information: An Empathy-based Framework	6
Mental Disorder and Suicide: What’s the Connection?	6
The Desirability of Difference: Georges Canguilhem and Body Integrity Identity Disorder	6
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	6

The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	5
Political Bioethics	5
Don’t Downplay “Play”: Reasons Why Health Systems Should Protect Childhood Play	5
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	5
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment	5
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	5
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	5
Heads, Bodies, Brains, and Selves: Personal Identity and the Ethics of Whole-Body Transplantation	5
The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human Virtues	4
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Being in Relation, Being through Change	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
The Logic of Pregnancy	4
Homo religiosus: The Soul of Bioethics	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
Thank You to Our Guest Reviewers	4
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	4
Phenomenology of Illness and the Need for a More Comprehensive Approach: Lessons from a Discussion of Plato’sCharmides	4
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	3
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	3
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
On Drugs	3
Doctor Ex Machina: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care	3
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	3
Irreligion, Alfie Evans, and the Future of Bioethics	3
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	3
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	3
Civil Liberties in a Lockdown: The Case of COVID-19	3
Which Kind of Body in “Mental” Pathologies? Phenomenological Insights on the Nature of the Disrupted Self	3
How to Exercise Integrity in Medical Billing: Don’t Distort Prices, Don’t Free-Ride on Other Physicians	3
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	3
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	3
Reevaluating Conscience Clauses	3
Cognitive Enhancement, Hyperagency, and Responsibility Explosion	3
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
Take Pity: What Disability Rights Can Learn from Religious Charity	3
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	3
Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-Use Research	3
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	3
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	3
From a Right to a Preference: Rethinking the Right to Genomic Ignorance	3
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	3
A Genealogy of Autonomy: Freedom, Paternalism, and the Future of the Doctor–Patient Relationship	2
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	2

The Fraught Notion of a “Good Death” in Pediatrics	2
Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice	2
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	2
Disability, Offense, and the Expressivist Objection to Medical Aid in Dying	2
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	2
The Most Good You Can Do with Your Kidneys: Effective Altruism and the Organ-Shortage Problem	2
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	2
Moral Distress, Conscientious Practice, and the Endurance of Ethics in Health Care through Times of Crisis and Calm	2
On the Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity: When Is the Right Infringed?	2
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	2
A Human Right to What Kind of Medicine?	2
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	2
Why Medicine Needs a Theology of Monstrosity	2
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	2
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	2
Meaning and Affect in the Placebo Effect	2
Prevention of Disease and the Absent Body: A Phenomenological Approach to Periodontitis	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	2
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	2
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	2
Psychopathology and Metaphysics: Can One Be a Realist About Mental Disorder?	1
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	1
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	1
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	1
Denying a Unified Concept of Disability	1
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	1
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	1
Fewer Mistakes and Presumed Consent	1
Whole-Body/Head Transplantation: Personal Identity, Experimental Surgery, and Bioethics	1
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	1
Miscarriage, Abortion, and Disease	1
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	1
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	1
Expanding the Use of Continuous Sedation Until Death and Physician-Assisted Suicide	1
Harming and Wronging in Creating	1
The Social Epistemology of Clinical Placebos	1
Corrigendum to: Scientific Practice in Modeling Diseases: Stances from Cancer Research and Neuropsychiatry	1
Priority for Organ Donors in the Allocation of Organs: Priority Rules from the Perspective of Equality of Opportunity	1
Access-to-Care and Conscience: Conflicting or Coherent?	1
Alzheimer’s, Advance Directives, and Interpretive Authority	1
Why Intellectual Disability Poses a Challenge to the Received View of Capacity and a Potential Response	1
Whose (Ir)Religion? Which Bioethics?	1
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	1
If You Love the Forest, then Do Not Kill the Trees: Health Care and a Place for the Particular	1
Statement in Support of Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act and in Opposition to a Proposed Revision	1
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	1
“Death” and Its Discontents	1
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	1
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	1
Secular Dreams and Myths of Irreligion: On the Political Control of Religion in Public Bioethics	1
How the Body Became Integrated: Cybernetics in the History of the Brain Death Debate	1
Kidney Sales and Disrespectful Demands: A Reply to Rippon	1
Toward a Hybrid Theory of How to Allocate Health-related Resources	1
The “Risks of Routine Tests” and Analogical Reasoning in Assessments of Minimal Risk	1
Losing One’s Head or Gaining a New Body?	1
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	1
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	1
Phenomenological Bioethics	1
Mental Health Without Well-being	1