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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	20
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	20
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	19
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	19
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	17
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	13
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	12
Well-being, Gamete Donation, and Genetic Knowledge: The Significant Interest View	12
Being in Relation, Being through Change	12
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	11
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	11
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	11
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	10
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	9
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	9
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	8
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7
The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
Disability and the Goods of Life	7
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	7
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6

Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	6
Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	6
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	6
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	6
Is Death Irreversible?	6
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	5
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	5
Compassionate Understanding	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	5
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	5
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	5
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	5
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	5
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	5
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	4
A Critique and Refinement of the Wakefieldian Concept of Disorder: An Improvement of the Harmful Dysfunction Analysis	4
On Drugs	4
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	4
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	4
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	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
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	4
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	4
The Morality of Assisted Dying	4
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	4