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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	41
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	38
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	17
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	16
Being in Relation, Being through Change	15
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	14
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	14
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	14
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	14
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	14
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	14
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	11
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
The Most Good You Can Do with Your Kidneys: Effective Altruism and the Organ-Shortage Problem	10
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	9
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	9
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	8
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	8
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	7
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	7
Opioids, Double Effect, and the Prospects of Hastening Death	7
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	6

Is Death Irreversible?	6
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	6
Disability and the Goods of Life	6
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	6
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	5
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	5
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	5
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	5
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	5
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	4
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	4
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	4
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
How Not to Defend the Unborn	4
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	4
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	4
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
The Logic of Pregnancy	4
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	3
The Journal After Fifty Years	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	3
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	3
On Drugs	3
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	3
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	3
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	3
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	3
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	3
Mental Health Without Well-being	3
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	3
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	3
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	3
The Morality of Assisted Dying	3
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	3
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	3
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	3
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	3
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	3
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	3
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2

Political Bioethics	2
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	2
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	2
Disability and the Complexity of Choice in the Ethics of Abortion and Voluntary Euthanasia	2
A Genealogy of Autonomy: Freedom, Paternalism, and the Future of the Doctor–Patient Relationship	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	2
Statement in Support of Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act and in Opposition to a Proposed Revision	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	2
From a Right to a Preference: Rethinking the Right to Genomic Ignorance	2
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	2
Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	2
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	2
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	2
On the Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity: When Is the Right Infringed?	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	2
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	1
Heads, Bodies, Brains, and Selves: Personal Identity and the Ethics of Whole-Body Transplantation	1
To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study	1
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	1
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	1
Reevaluating Conscience Clauses	1
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body	1
Moral Distress, Conscientious Practice, and the Endurance of Ethics in Health Care through Times of Crisis and Calm	1
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	1
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	1
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	1
Abortion, Impairment, and Well-Being	1
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	1
The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	1
Bioethics and the Contours of Autonomy	1
Re-asserting the Specialness of Health Care	1
First-Person Authorization and Family Objections to Organ Donation	1
If You Love the Forest, then Do Not Kill the Trees: Health Care and a Place for the Particular	1
Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole	1
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	1
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	1
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	1
Expanding the Use of Continuous Sedation Until Death and Physician-Assisted Suicide	1
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	1
Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe	1
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	1
The Mereotopology of Pregnancy	1
Bioethics, Sociality, and Mental Illness	1
“Death” and Its Discontents	1
Psychopathology and Metaphysics: Can One Be a Realist About Mental Disorder?	1
Whole-Body/Head Transplantation: Personal Identity, Experimental Surgery, and Bioethics	1
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	1
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	1
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	1
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	1