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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Statement in Support of Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act and in Opposition to a Proposed Revision	33
Equality in the Informed Consent Process: Competence to Consent, Substitute Decision-Making, and Discrimination of Persons with Mental Disorders	30
Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice	23
Mental Health Without Well-being	20
Harm as a Necessary Component of the Concept of Medical Disorder: Reply to Muckler and Taylor	14
Principlism’s Balancing Act: Why the Principles of Biomedical Ethics Need a Theory of the Good	13
Reconciling Lists of Principles in Bioethics	12
Moral Status and the Architects of Principlism	12
Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole	11
Nine Months	10
A Genealogy of Autonomy: Freedom, Paternalism, and the Future of the Doctor–Patient Relationship	9
Disability and the Goods of Life	8
Response to Commentaries	8
The Irrelevance of Harm for a Theory of Disease	8
Challenging the Hegemony of the Symptom: Reclaiming Context in PTSD and Moral Injury	8
Miscarriage Is Not a Cause of Death: A Response to Berg’s “Abortion and Miscarriage”	8
The Authority of the Common Morality	8
Doctor Ex Machina: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care	7
Bioethics in the Ruins	7
Forty Years of the Four Principles: Enduring Themes from Beauchamp and Childress	7
The Vitality of Mortality: Being-Toward-Death and Long-Term Cancer Survivorship	7
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	6
Increasing the Role of Phenomenology in Psychiatric Diagnosis–The Clinical Staging Approach	6
Virtues and Principles in Biomedical Ethics	6
Religion at Work in Bioethics and Biopolicy: Christian Bioethicists, Secular Language, Suspicious Orthodoxy	6

A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	6
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Pinning down the Reasonability View	5
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	5
Pathologizing Ugliness: A Conceptual Analysis of the Naturalist and Normativist Claims in “Aesthetic Pathology”	5
Homo religiosus: The Soul of Bioethics	5
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	5
The Unfinished Business of Respect for Autonomy: Persons, Relationships, and Nonhuman Animals	4
Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-Use Research	4
Prudence in Shared Decision-Making: The Missing Link between the “Technically Correct” and the “Morally Good” in Medical Decision-Making	4
Political Bioethics	4
Solastalgia: Climatic Anxiety—An Emotional Geography to Find Our Way Out	4
Trapped in the Wrong Body? Transgender Identity Claims, Body-Self Dualism, and the False Promise of Gender Reassignment Therapy	4
Secular Dreams and Myths of Irreligion: On the Political Control of Religion in Public Bioethics	4
Reevaluating Conscience Clauses	4
Mental Disorder and Suicide: What’s the Connection?	4
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	4
The Phenomenology of Objectification in and Through Medical Practice and Technology Development	4
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	4
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	4
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	4
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	4
Religious Accommodation in Bioethics and the Practice of Medicine	4
The Identity of Psychiatry and the Challenge of Mad Activism: Rethinking the Clinical Encounter	4
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body	4
The Importance of Clear and Careful Thinking in Clinical Ethics	3
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	3
The Moral Authority of Consensus	3
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	3
Questionable Agreement: The Experience of Depression and DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder Criteria	3
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	3
Meaning and Affect in the Placebo Effect	3
Do We Need Rights in Bioethics Discourse?	3
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	3
Uncertainty, Evidence, and the Integration of Machine Learning into Medical Practice	3
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	3
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	3
Access-to-Care and Conscience: Conflicting or Coherent?	3
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	3
Crisis in Psychiatric Diagnosis? Epistemological Humility in the DSM Era	3
Autonomy, Consent, and the “Nonideal” Case	3
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	3
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	3
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	3
Challenge Trials: What Are the Ethical Problems?	3
Alzheimer’s, Advance Directives, and Interpretive Authority	3
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	3
How the Body Became Integrated: Cybernetics in the History of the Brain Death Debate	3
On the Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity: When Is the Right Infringed?	3
Irreligion, Alfie Evans, and the Future of Bioethics	3
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	3

Moral Injury, Moral Identity, and “Dirty Hands” in War Fighting and Police Work	3
Re-asserting the Specialness of Health Care	2
Harming and Wronging in Creating	2
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	2
Rethinking Categories and Dimensions in the DSM	2
Whose (Ir)Religion? Which Bioethics?	2
The Fraught Notion of a “Good Death” in Pediatrics	2
Don’t Downplay “Play”: Reasons Why Health Systems Should Protect Childhood Play	2
Bioethics and the Rule of Law: A Classical Liberal Theory	2
Is Death Irreversible?	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	2
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	2
Priority for Organ Donors in the Allocation of Organs: Priority Rules from the Perspective of Equality of Opportunity	2
Toward a Hybrid Theory of How to Allocate Health-related Resources	2
A Human Right to What Kind of Medicine?	2
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	2
The Desirability of Difference: Georges Canguilhem and Body Integrity Identity Disorder	2
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	2
Health-Care Professionals and Lethal Injection: An Ethical Inquiry	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	2
Opioids, Double Effect, and the Prospects of Hastening Death	2
Fewer Mistakes and Presumed Consent	2
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	2
Which Kind of Body in “Mental” Pathologies? Phenomenological Insights on the Nature of the Disrupted Self	2
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2