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

Article	Citations
Moral Injury, Moral Identity, and “Dirty Hands” in War Fighting and Police Work	35
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year	33
Below the Surface of Clinical Ethics	28
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	26
Children, Fetuses, and the Non-Existent: Moral Obligations and the Beginning of Life	15
To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study	14
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	14
Organ Donation by the Imminently Dead: Addressing the Organ Shortage and the Dead Donor Rule	14
The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology	11
“Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of Life	10
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	10
Evictionism, Libertarianism, and Duties of the Fetus	10
Bioethics: Shaping Medical Practice and Taking Diversity Seriously	10
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	9
Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease	7
A Dilemma for Respecting Autonomy: Bridge Technologies and the Hazards of Sequential Decision-Making	7
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	7
How Not to Defend the Unborn	7
Can the Future-Like-Ours Argument Survive Ontological Scrutiny?	7
The Desirability of Difference: Georges Canguilhem and Body Integrity Identity Disorder	6
Deceiving Research Participants: Is It Inconsistent With Valid Consent?	6
Religious Accommodation in Bioethics and the Practice of Medicine	6
The Dynamics of Disease: Toward a Processual Theory of Health	6
Communicating Genetic Information: An Empathy-based Framework	6
Mental Disorder and Suicide: What’s the Connection?	6

Persons and their Brains: Life, Death, and Lessened Humanity	5
Seeing the Good in Medical Ethics	5
Heads, Bodies, Brains, and Selves: Personal Identity and the Ethics of Whole-Body Transplantation	5
The WEIRD Trio: The Cultural Gap between Physicians, Learners, and Patients in Pluralistic Societies	5
Political Bioethics	5
Don’t Downplay “Play”: Reasons Why Health Systems Should Protect Childhood Play	5
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	5
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment	5
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Conceptual, Personal, and Policy Questions	4
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	4
Thank You to Our Guest Reviewers	4
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	4
Phenomenology of Illness and the Need for a More Comprehensive Approach: Lessons from a Discussion of Plato’sCharmides	4
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	4
The Ethics of Head Transplant from the Confucian Perspective of Human Virtues	4
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
Being in Relation, Being through Change	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
The Logic of Pregnancy	4
Homo religiosus: The Soul of Bioethics	4
“Marked” Bodies, Medical Intervention, and Courageous Humility: Spiritual Identity Formation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark	3
Is Cryocide an Ethically Feasible Alternative to Euthanasia?	3
What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?	3
Take Pity: What Disability Rights Can Learn from Religious Charity	3
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	3
Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-Use Research	3
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	3
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	3
From a Right to a Preference: Rethinking the Right to Genomic Ignorance	3
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	3
Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter	3
Eugène Bouchut’s (1818–1891) Early Anticipation of the Concept of Brain Death	3
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	3
What We Argue About When We Argue About Death	3
On Drugs	3
Doctor Ex Machina: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care	3
Principles, Paradigms, and Protections	3
Irreligion, Alfie Evans, and the Future of Bioethics	3
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	3
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	3
Civil Liberties in a Lockdown: The Case of COVID-19	3
Which Kind of Body in “Mental” Pathologies? Phenomenological Insights on the Nature of the Disrupted Self	3
How to Exercise Integrity in Medical Billing: Don’t Distort Prices, Don’t Free-Ride on Other Physicians	3
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	3
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	3
Reevaluating Conscience Clauses	3
Cognitive Enhancement, Hyperagency, and Responsibility Explosion	3