OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is 3. 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
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
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
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	11
The Most Good You Can Do with Your Kidneys: Effective Altruism and the Organ-Shortage Problem	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
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	9
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	8
Distinguishing Health from Pathology	8
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	7
Opioids, Double Effect, and the Prospects of Hastening Death	7
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
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	6

Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
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
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
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	5
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	5
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
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
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
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