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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	51
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	19
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	18
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	17
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	17
Being in Relation, Being through Change	16
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	16
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	14
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	14
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	12
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	12
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	11
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	10
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	10
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	10
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	9
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	8
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	8
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	8
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	7
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	7

Disability and the Goods of Life	7
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	6
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	6
Who Would the Person Be after a Head Transplant? A Confucian Reflection	6
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	5
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	5
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	5
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	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
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	4
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
On Drugs	4
Residual Cognitive Capacities in Patients With Cognitive Motor Dissociation, and Their Implications for Well-Being	4
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	3
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	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
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	3
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	3
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	3
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	3
The Journal After Fifty Years	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
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	3
The Morality of Assisted Dying	3
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	3
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	3
Mental Health Without Well-being	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
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	3
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	3
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	3
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	3
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	2

Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	2
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	2
Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	2
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
From a Right to a Preference: Rethinking the Right to Genomic Ignorance	2
Reframing Ongoing Debates: New Perspectives Modifying Moral Insights to Improve Patient Care	2
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	2
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	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
“Death” and Its Discontents	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
First-Person Authorization and Family Objections to Organ Donation	1
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	1
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	1
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	1
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	1
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	1
Psychopathology and Metaphysics: Can One Be a Realist About Mental Disorder?	1
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	1
The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	1
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	1
Bioethics and the Contours of Autonomy	1
Whole-Body/Head Transplantation: Personal Identity, Experimental Surgery, and Bioethics	1
Bioethics, Sociality, and Mental Illness	1
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	1
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	1
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	1
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	1
Political Bioethics	1
Death as the Cessation of an Organism and the Moral Status Alternative	1
Challenges Facing the Appeal to Practical Wisdom in Medicine and Beyond	1
Civil Liberties in a Lockdown: The Case of COVID-19	1
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	1
The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human Virtues	1
Expanding the Use of Continuous Sedation Until Death and Physician-Assisted Suicide	1
The Mereotopology of Pregnancy	1
Moral Distress, Conscientious Practice, and the Endurance of Ethics in Health Care through Times of Crisis and Calm	1
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body	1
Abortion, Impairment, and Well-Being	1
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	1
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	1
Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe	1
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	1
Virtue Monism and Medical Practice: Practical Wisdom as Cross-Situational Ethical Expertise	1