OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Statement in Support of Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act and in Opposition to a Proposed Revision	35
Equality in the Informed Consent Process: Competence to Consent, Substitute Decision-Making, and Discrimination of Persons with Mental Disorders	33
Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application and of the Monitoring of Practice	28
Mental Health Without Well-being	26
Doctor Ex Machina: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care	14
Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole	14
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	14
Disability and the Goods of Life	12
Democratic Justifications for Patient Public Involvement and Engagement in Health Research: An Exploration of the Theoretical Debates and Practical Challenges	10
A Genealogy of Autonomy: Freedom, Paternalism, and the Future of the Doctor–Patient Relationship	10
Preclinical Disease or Risk Factor? Alzheimer’s Disease as a Case Study of Changing Conceptualizations of Disease	10
Miscarriage Is Not a Cause of Death: A Response to Berg’s “Abortion and Miscarriage”	9
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Pinning down the Reasonability View	7
Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-Use Research	7
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act	7
The Phenomenology of Objectification in and Through Medical Practice and Technology Development	7
Depression and Physician-Aid-in-Dying	7
Solastalgia: Climatic Anxiety—An Emotional Geography to Find Our Way Out	7
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
Recognizing the Diverse Faces of Later Life: Old Age as a Category of Intersectional Analysis in Medical Ethics	6
Mental Disorder and Suicide: What’s the Connection?	6
Pathologizing Ugliness: A Conceptual Analysis of the Naturalist and Normativist Claims in “Aesthetic Pathology”	6
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	6
Involuntary Childlessness, Suffering, and Equality of Resources: An Argument for Expanding State-funded Fertility Treatment Provision	6
Political Bioethics	6

Religion at Work in Bioethics and Biopolicy: Christian Bioethicists, Secular Language, Suspicious Orthodoxy	6
Uncertainty, Evidence, and the Integration of Machine Learning into Medical Practice	5
Homo religiosus: The Soul of Bioethics	5
On the Anatomy of Health-related Actions for Which People Could Reasonably be Held Responsible: A Framework	5
Patient Expertise and Medical Authority: Epistemic Implications for the Provider–Patient Relationship	5
How Should the Precautionary Principle Apply to Pregnant Women in Clinical Research?	5
Religious Accommodation in Bioethics and the Practice of Medicine	5
Embryo Loss and Moral Status	5
Secular Dreams and Myths of Irreligion: On the Political Control of Religion in Public Bioethics	5
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	5
Is Death Irreversible?	4
Trapped in the Wrong Body? Transgender Identity Claims, Body-Self Dualism, and the False Promise of Gender Reassignment Therapy	4
Access-to-Care and Conscience: Conflicting or Coherent?	4
Reevaluating Conscience Clauses	4
Prudence in Shared Decision-Making: The Missing Link between the “Technically Correct” and the “Morally Good” in Medical Decision-Making	4
A Mixed Judgment Standard for Surrogate Decision-Making	4
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	4
On the Child’s Right to Bodily Integrity: When Is the Right Infringed?	4
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	4
Moral Injury, Moral Identity, and “Dirty Hands” in War Fighting and Police Work	4
The Phenomenology of Healing: Eight Ways of Dealing With the Ill and Impaired Body	4
Questionable Agreement: The Experience of Depression and DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder Criteria	4
Meaning and Affect in the Placebo Effect	4
Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine	4