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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	29
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	26
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	23
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm	21
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	20
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	19
Being in Relation, Being through Change	18
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	17
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	15
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	14
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	13
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	13
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	11
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	9
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	9
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	9
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	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
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	8
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	8
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	7
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	7
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
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	7
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	7
Is Death Irreversible?	7
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	7
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	7
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	6
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	6
Compassionate Understanding	6
Biohacking Love and the Norms of Relationships	6
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	6
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	6
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	6
The Logic of Pregnancy	6
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	5
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal	5
The Case Against Legalizing Medically Assisted Suicide or Voluntary Active Euthanasia in Islamic Regions	5
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	5
Mental Illness: A Deviation from Phenomenological, Rather than Moral, Norms?	5
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	5
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	5
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	5
The Morality of Assisted Dying	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
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	5
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	5
On Drugs	5
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	5
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	5
Fair Consent Transactions and Ethical Pluralism	5
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	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
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	4
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	4
Epistemically Transformative Medical Procedures and Informed Consent	4
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	4
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	4
A Matter of Trust: Principles to Ethically Assess AI in Health Care	4
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	4
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	4
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	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
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	3
A Matter of Judgment? Second-Hand Medical Knowledge and Professional Responsibility	3

Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	3
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	3
Parfitian Priority, Gene Therapy, and Disability	3
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	3
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	3
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	3
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	3
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
Reframing Ongoing Debates: New Perspectives Modifying Moral Insights to Improve Patient Care	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	2
Apart Together: Getting to the Heart of Biofixture Status	2
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	2
Collective Paternalism and Vaccination Programs	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	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
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	2
“Death” and Its Discontents	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
Baby Parts	2
Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	2
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	2
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	2
Moral Distress, Conscientious Practice, and the Endurance of Ethics in Health Care through Times of Crisis and Calm	2
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	2
Political Bioethics	2