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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	37
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm	28
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	27
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	24
Being in Relation, Being through Change	21
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	20
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	19
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	18
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	18
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	15
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	14
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	13
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	10
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	10
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	10
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	9
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	9
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	9
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	9
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	8
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	8
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	8
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	8

Is Death Irreversible?	8
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	8
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	7
Neurobiological Determinism versus Human Freedom: Competing Explanatory Models and the Hope for Moral Enhancement	7
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	7
Biohacking Love and the Norms of Relationships	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
Human Enhancement: A Conceptual Scoping Review	7
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	6
On Drugs	6
The Logic of Pregnancy	6
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	6
Reproducing Anachronism: Ageing, Fertility and Inequality in Reproductive Governance	6
An Aristotelian Approach to the Genetic Enhancement of Virtue	6
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	6
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	6
Medical Mereology: Exploring the Role of Metaphysics for Secular Bioethics	6
The Case Against Legalizing Medically Assisted Suicide or Voluntary Active Euthanasia in Islamic Regions	6
Compassionate Understanding	6
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	5
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	5
Mental Illness: A Deviation from Phenomenological, Rather than Moral, Norms?	5
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	5
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	5
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	5
Fair Consent Transactions and Ethical Pluralism	5
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal	5
What Should We Believe? The Case of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates	5
The Journal After Fifty Years	5
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	5
The Morality of Assisted Dying	5
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	5
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	5
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	5
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	5
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	4
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	4
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	4
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	4
Artificial Wombs, Change-of-Location Birth, and Infanticide	4
All Things Considered: Accounting for Omissions in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine	4
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	4
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	4
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	4
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	4
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	4
A Matter of Trust: Principles to Ethically Assess AI in Health Care	3
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	3
Medicine and Moral Innocence	3
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	3

Boundaries of Disease: Vagueness and Overdiagnosis	3
Epistemically Transformative Medical Procedures and Informed Consent	3
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	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
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	3
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	3
A Matter of Judgment? Second-Hand Medical Knowledge and Professional Responsibility	3
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	3
Why Moral Bioenhancement Cannot Reliably Produce Virtue	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
Reframing Ongoing Debates: New Perspectives Modifying Moral Insights to Improve Patient Care	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	2
Plastic Resilience: Rethinking Resilience in Illness with Catherine Malabou	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	2
Apart Together: Getting to the Heart of Biofixture Status	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Baby Parts	2
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	2
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	2
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	2