OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Christian Bioethics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	7
Finding the Way Towards a Better Medicine: A Review of: Curlin and Tollefsen. 2021.The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN-10: 0	7
No Acceptable Losses: Risk, Prevention, and Justice	5
Christian Bioethics: The Profession of Medicine and Medical Ethics	5
Malek’s Programmatic Secularism? A Dissent	5
God Became Human So That Humans Could Become Posthuman?	4
The Numinous Presence That Binds: How the Chaplain Navigates Disparate Commitments Through the Lens of Hospital Baptism	4
Theological and Ethical Problems with Medicalizing Risk	4
Reclaiming Broken Bodies (or, This Is Gonna Hurt Some): Pain, Healing, and the Opioid Crisis	3
Can Proposals for Social Inclusion Promote Practices of Moral Exclusion? An Example of Moral Disagreement from the Physical Therapy Profession	3
Detached From Humanity: Artificial Gestation and the Christian Dilemma	3
Christianity and Transhumanism in the Inequity Era	3
To Whom is the Chaplain Beholden? Guest Editor Introduction to Special Issue	3
Reviewer Acknowledgment	3
Christian Hope and Transhumanism	3
Among Other Things, a Theological Solution to the Fermi Paradox	3
Who Wants to Live Forever? Transhumanist Immortality and Christian Eternity	3
Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ	3
Inhumation as Theophanic Encounter: The Eastern Orthodox Rejection of Cremation	3
Highway to Cocytus or Ascent into Paradise: Apatheia and Moral Bioenhancement	3
Faithfully Describing and Responding to Addiction and Pain: Christian “Homefulness” and Desire	3
Transhumanism, Motion, and Human Perfection	2
Moonshot Ethics: A Framework for Preventing Prudential Gaps in End-of-Life Deliberation	2
Death, Dying, and Language Games	2
Book Review: Prophecy Amidst Malaise: A Review of Weiss Block, Lysaught, and Martins (eds). 2023. A Prophet to the Peoples: Paul Farmer’s Witness and Theological Ethics. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publicati	2

Expanding Pathology: Risk Reduction, Illicit Procedures, and Catholic Health Care	2
On the Morality of Reallocating Life-Sustaining Interventions in Times of Scarcity	2
Ethical Accompaniment and End-of-Life Care	2
Guest Editor Introduction to Special Issue “(Ir)Religion in Clinical Ethics Consultation Methodology and Competencies”	2
To Our Guest Reviewers: Thank You	2
The Tree of Life, Health, and Risk Through the Lens of Biblical Wisdom	2
Ectogestation and Humanity’s Whence? An Exploration with Saint Augustine and Karl Barth	2
Responding Wisely to Persistent Pain: Insights from Patristic Theology and Clinical Experience	2
Virtue in Medicine: The Foundation Protecting Conscientious Objection from Moral Relativism	2
Abortion Pills: Killing or Letting Die?	2
Still Waiting for St. Benedict: Christianity and Bioethics in Matthew Vest’s Ethics Lost in Modernity	2
“One of the Least of These”: Unrepresented Patients and Christian Bioethics	2
Medical Risk, Patient Hope, and Hospital Chaplaincy: Cautionary Tales	2
The Fantasy of the Good Death	2
The Triple Beholdenness of Polish Hospital Chaplains: How to Avoid Confusion?	2