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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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	22
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm	22
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	21
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	21
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	20
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	20
Being in Relation, Being through Change	17
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	14
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	14
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	12
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	12
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	12
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	11
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	11
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	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?	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	8
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
Disability and the Goods of Life	8
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	7
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	7
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	7
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7

Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	7
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	6
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	6
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	6
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	6
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	6
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	6
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	6
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	5
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	5
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	5
On Drugs	5
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	5
Compassionate Understanding	5
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	5
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	5
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal	4
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View	4
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	4
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	4
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	4
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	4
Medical Ethics as Taught and as Practiced: Principlism, Narrative Ethics, and the Case of Living Donor Liver Transplantation	4
Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity	4
Where There’s Hope, There’s Life : On the Importance of Hope in Health Care	4
The Morality of Assisted Dying	4
The Journal After Fifty Years	3
All Things Considered: Accounting for Omissions in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
Epistemically Transformative Medical Procedures and Informed Consent	3
Speaker Responsibility for Synthetic Speech Derived from Neural Activity	3
Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	3
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	3
Do Non-Compensating Plasma Centers Exploit Donors?	3
Public Bioethics Amidst a Pluralist People: A Project of Presumption, Despair, or Hope?	3
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	3
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
A Matter of Trust: Principles to Ethically Assess AI in Health Care	3
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	3

What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	2
Changing the Paradigm: Practical Wisdom as True North in Medical Education	2
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	2
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	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
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	2
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	2
Political Bioethics	2
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	2
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	2
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	2
Unfreedom or Mere Inability? The Case of Biomedical Enhancement	2
A Matter of Judgment? Second-Hand Medical Knowledge and Professional Responsibility	2
Reframing Ongoing Debates: New Perspectives Modifying Moral Insights to Improve Patient Care	2
Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing	2
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	2
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	2
Big Ideas That Percolate into Clinical Ethics	2
The New Science of Practical Wisdom: A Critical Appraisal	2
Bioethical Boundaries, Critiques of Current Paradigms, and the Importance of Transparency	2
Unshared Minds, Decaying Worlds: Towards a Pathology of Chronic Loneliness	2
Unintended Intrauterine Death and Preterm Delivery: What Does Philosophy Have to Offer?	2