Journal of Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic	171
Medical students and COVID-19: the need for pandemic preparedness	155
‘Healthcare Heroes’: problems with media focus on heroism from healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	152
Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?	111
Who is afraid of black box algorithms? On the epistemological and ethical basis of trust in medical AI	99
The carnage of substandard research during the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for quality	99
Multivalue ethical framework for fair global allocation of a COVID-19 vaccine	76
Levels of stress in medical students due to COVID-19	74
Passport to freedom? Immunity passports for COVID-19	67
Triage during the COVID-19 epidemic in Spain: better and worse ethical arguments	56
Represent me: please! Towards an ethics of digital twins in medicine	54
Defining the undefinable: the black box problem in healthcare artificial intelligence	50
Towards collective moral resilience: the potential of communities of practice during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	48
Relational ethical approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic	47
Ethics and ego dissolution: the case of psilocybin	47
Nothing to be ashamed of: sex robots for older adults with disabilities	45
‘Your country needs you’: the ethics of allocating staff to high-risk clinical roles in the management of patients with COVID-19	43
Machine learning in medicine: should the pursuit of enhanced interpretability be abandoned?	43
Persuasion, not coercion or incentivisation, is the best means of promoting COVID-19 vaccination	43
Why lockdown of the elderly is not ageist and why levelling down equality is wrong	42
Doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic: what are their duties and what is owed to them?	41
Ethics of research at the intersection of COVID-19 and black lives matter: a call to action	37
Rationing, racism and justice: advancing the debate around ‘colourblind’ COVID-19 ventilator allocation	34
Ethical allocation of future COVID-19 vaccines	34
Money is not everything: experimental evidence that payments do not increase willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19	34

Who gets the ventilator? Important legal rights in a pandemic	33
Patients, clinicians and open notes: information blocking as a case of epistemic injustice	32
Should free-text data in electronic medical records be shared for research? A citizens’ jury study in the UK	32
The need for empathetic healthcare systems	30
Triage of critical care resources in COVID-19: a stronger role for justice	29
Vaccine ethics: an ethical framework for global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines	29
When patients refuse COVID-19 testing, quarantine, and social distancing in inpatient psychiatry: clinical and ethical challenges	29
The good, the bad and the ugly: pandemic priority decisions and triage	27
Responsibility, second opinions and peer-disagreement: ethical and epistemological challenges of using AI in clinical diagnostic contexts	26
Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of COVID-19: what do people think?	26
Trust, trustworthiness and sharing patient data for research	26
Social determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: lessons from Canada	25
Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research	25
Global equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for COVID-19: The role of patents as private governance	25
Caster Semenya, athlete classification, and fair equality of opportunity in sport	25
Dying individuals and suffering populations: applying a population-level bioethics lens to palliative care in humanitarian contexts: before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Payment in challenge studies: ethics, attitudes and a new payment for risk model	24
Solidarity is for other people: identifying derelictions of solidarity in responses to COVID-19	24
What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines	24
Incoming ethical issues for deep brain stimulation: when long-term treatment leads to a ‘new form of the disease’	24
Ethics of generative AI	23
Best interests versus resource allocation: could COVID-19 cloud decision-making for the cognitively impaired?	23
Balancing health worker well-being and duty to care: an ethical approach to staff safety in COVID-19 and beyond	23
Mistrust and inconsistency during COVID-19: considerations for resource allocation guidelines that prioritise healthcare workers	23
Sustainability principle for the ethics of healthcare resource allocation	23
Male or female genital cutting: why ‘health benefits’ are morally irrelevant	22
Love thy neighbour? Allocating vaccines in a world of competing obligations	22
Becoming a medical assistance in dying (MAiD) provider: an exploration of the conditions that produce conscientious participation	22
What healthcare professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE)	22
Ethicists, doctors and triage decisions: who should decide? And on what basis?	22
The unnaturalistic fallacy: COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity	22
Can we learn from hidden mistakes? Self-fulfilling prophecy and responsible neuroprognostic innovation	21
Triage and justice in an unjust pandemic: ethical allocation of scarce medical resources in the setting of racial and socioeconomic disparities	21
Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI	21
Reviewing the womb	21
Environmental sustainability and the carbon emissions of pharmaceuticals	21
Consent in the time of COVID-19	20
Applying futility in psychiatry: a concept whose time has come	19
How to fairly incentivise digital contact tracing	19
Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19	19
Ethics of the algorithmic prediction of goal of care preferences: from theory to practice	19
Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: unresolved questions and future directions	19
Where is knowledge from the global South? An account of epistemic justice for a global bioethics	19
Trust does not need to be human: it is possible to trust medical AI	19
Testimonial injustice in medical machine learning	18
The time has come to extend the 14-day limit	18
Human infection challenge studies in endemic settings and/or low-income and middle-income countries: key points of ethical consensus and controversy	18
Revisiting the equity debate in COVID-19: ICU is no panacea	18
Mitigating ethical conflict and moral distress in the care of patients on ECMO: impact of an automatic ethics consultation protocol	18
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry	18

Frauds in scientific research and how to possibly overcome them	17
Diversity in clinical research: public health and social justice imperatives	17
Response to our reviewers	17
Vaccine passports and health disparities: a perilous journey	17
Promoting racial equity in COVID-19 resource allocation	17
Commercial DNA tests and police investigations: a broad bioethical perspective	17
Epistemic injustice in psychiatric practice: epistemic duties and the phenomenological approach	17
The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies	17
Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials	16
‘Can you hear me?’: communication, relationship and ethics in video-based telepsychiatric consultations	16
Without a trace: Why did corona apps fail?	16
Forever young? The ethics of ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults	16
Tragic choices in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: on fairness, consistency and community	16
National health system cuts and triage decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain: ethical implications	16
Immunity passports, fundamental rights and public health hazards: a reply to Brown et al	16
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda: unmasking the betrayal of ‘Healthcare Heroes’	16
COVID-19 and beyond: the ethical challenges of resetting health services during and after public health emergencies	16
Ethics of selective restriction of liberty in a pandemic	15
WHO’s allocation framework for COVAX: is it fair?	15
Is withdrawing treatment really more problematic than withholding treatment?	15
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities	15
Research abuses against people of colour and other vulnerable groups in early psychedelic research	15
Data for sale: trust, confidence and sharing health data with commercial companies	15
COVID-19 pandemic, the scarcity of medical resources, community-centred medicine and discrimination against persons with disabilities	14
Epistemic injustice, children and mental illness	14
Does Zero-COVID neglect health disparities?	14
Ethical guidelines for deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19	14
Integrating philosophy, policy and practice to create a just and fair health service	14
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity	14
AI support for ethical decision-making around resuscitation: proceed with care	14
Vaccine confidence, public understanding and probity: time for a shift in focus?	14
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders	14
Barriers to green inhaler prescribing: ethical issues in environmentally sustainable clinical practice	14
Three models for the regulation of polygenic scores in reproduction	14
Against vaccine nationalism	14
Why continuing uncertainties are no reason to postpone challenge trials for coronavirus vaccines	14
Challenges to biobanking in LMICs during COVID-19: time to reconceptualise research ethics guidance for pandemics and public health emergencies?	14
Compulsory medical intervention versus external constraint in pandemic control	13
Ethical issues in computational pathology	13
Reproductive carrier screening: responding to the eugenics critique	13
How to reach trustworthy decisions for caesarean sections on maternal request: a call for beneficial power	13
Ethical climate in contemporary paediatric intensive care	13
Voluntary COVID-19 vaccination of children: a social responsibility	13
Strengthening the impairment argument against abortion	13
Translating Cultural Safety to the UK	13
Should rare diseases get special treatment?	13
Children of COVID-19: pawns, pathfinders or partners?	13
Spoonful of honey or a gallon of vinegar? A conditional COVID-19 vaccination policy for front-line healthcare workers	13
Gestaticide: killing the subject of the artificial womb	13
Potential for epistemic injustice in evidence-based healthcare policy and guidance	13
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction	12
Health justice in the Anthropocene: medical ethics and the Land Ethic	12
‘Climate change mitigation is a hot topic, but not when it comes to hospitals’: a qualitative study on hospital stakeholders’ perception and sense of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions	12
Does NICE apply the rule of rescue in its approach to highly specialised technologies?	12
Justice in COVID-19 vaccine prioritisation: rethinking the approach	12
High ideals: the misappropriation and reappropriation of the heroic label in the midst of a global pandemic	12
Patients, doctors and risk attitudes	12
Spanish regulation of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide	12
Assisted gestative technologies	12
A focused protection vaccination strategy: why we should not target children with COVID-19 vaccination policies	12
Pandemic prioritarianism	12
Morisprudence: a theoretical framework for studying the relationship linking moral case deliberation, organisational learning and quality improvement	12
Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: critiquing the impact of disease public profile on policy and clinical decision-making	12
Informed consent in pragmatic trials: results from a survey of trials published 2014–2019	12
Arguments on thin ice: on non-medical egg freezing and individualisation arguments	12
Digital bioethics: introducing new methods for the study of bioethical issues	12
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism	11
A discussion on controversies and ethical dilemmas in prostate cancer screening	11
Autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor	11
Is there room for privacy in medical crowdfunding?	11
Social egg freezing and donation: waste not, want not	11
Constructing authentic decisions: proxy decision making for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent	11
SARS-CoV-2 challenge studies: ethics and risk minimisation	11
Allocation of COVID-19 vaccination: when public prioritisation preferences differ from official regulations	11
What does solidarity do for bioethics?	11
Genetic information, insurance and a pluralistic approach to justice	11
Reimagining research ethics to include environmental sustainability: a principled approach, including a case study of data-driven health research	10
Near-term ethical challenges of digital twins	10
Ethical decision making during a healthcare crisis: a resource allocation framework and tool	10
Controlled human infection with SARS-CoV-2 to study COVID-19 vaccines and treatments: bioethics in Utopia	10

Two dilemmas for medical ethics in the treatment of gender dysphoria in youth	10
Understanding Japan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Control, trust and the sharing of health information: the limits of trust	10
Analysis of the institutional landscape and proliferation of proposals for global vaccine equity for COVID-19: too many cooks or too many recipes?	10
What can data trusts for health research learn from participatory governance in biobanks?	10
Expanded terminal sedation in end-of-life care	10
What money can’t buy: an argument against paying people to get vaccinated	10
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust	10
Physician moral injury in the context of moral, ethical and legal codes	10
Healthcare professionals’ responsibility for informing relatives at risk of hereditary disease	10
Where the ethical action is	10
Should age matter in COVID-19 triage? A deliberative study	10
Ethical challenges for women’s healthcare highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Expressivism at the beginning and end of life	9
Youth should decide: the principle of subsidiarity in paediatric transgender healthcare	9
Beyond regulatory approaches to ethics: making space for ethical preparedness in healthcare research	9
Ethics of vaccine refusal	9
Framework for evaluation research on clinical ethical case interventions: the role of ethics consultants	9
Genetic testing in the acute setting: a round table discussion	9
Demonstrating ‘respect for persons’ in clinical research: findings from qualitative interviews with diverse genomics research participants	9
Payment of COVID-19 challenge trials: underpayment is a bigger worry than overpayment	9
Can China’s ‘standard of care’ for COVID-19 be replicated in Europe?	9
Public interest in health data research: laying out the conceptual groundwork	9
Language matters: the ‘digital twin’ metaphor in health and medicine	9
Allocating scarce life-saving resources: the proper role of age	9
Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth	9
US adults’ preferences for race-based and place-based prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccines	9
How can we decide a fair allocation of healthcare resources during a pandemic?	9
Three pitfalls of accountable healthcare rationing	9
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?	9
What is common and what is different: recommendations from European scientific societies for triage in the first outbreak of COVID-19	8
Should healthcare workers be prioritised during the COVID-19 pandemic? A view from Madrid and New York	8
Public health decisions in the COVID-19 pandemic require more than ‘follow the science’	8
Conventional revolution: the ethical implications of the natural progress of neonatal intensive care to artificial wombs	8
Do we really know how many clinical trials are conducted ethically? Why research ethics committee review practices need to be strengthened and initial steps we could take to strengthen them	8
Fraud and retraction in perioperative medicine publications: what we learned and what can be implemented to prevent future recurrence	8
The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: an exercise in international professional ethical self-regulation	8
Procedural safeguards cannot disentangle MAiD from organ donation decisions	8
Development of a structured process for fair allocation of critical care resources in the setting of insufficient capacity: a discussion paper	8
Perspectives on digital twins and the (im)possibilities of control	8
Prolife hypocrisy: why inconsistency arguments do not matter	8
Endosex	8
Payment in challenge studies from an economics perspective	8
COVID-19 vaccination status should not be used in triage tie-breaking	8
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?	8
My body, not my choice: against legalised abortion	8
Organisational failure: rethinking whistleblowing for tomorrow’s doctors	8
Parental obligation and compelled caesarean section: careful analogies and reliable reasoning about individual cases	8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity	8
Ethical framework for adult social care in COVID-19	8
Fine-tuning the impairment argument	8
Doctors have an ethical obligation to ask patients about food insecurity: what is stopping us?	8
WHO guidance on ethics in outbreaks and the COVID-19 pandemic: a critical appraisal	8
Reflections of methodological and ethical challenges in conducting research during COVID-19 involving resettled refugee youth in Canada	8
To be, or not to be? The role of the unconscious in transgender transitioning: identity, autonomy and well-being	7
What makes a medical intervention invasive?	7
Impact of ectogenesis on the medicalisation of pregnancy and childbirth	7
Ethics of digital twins: four challenges	7
Consent-GPT: is it ethical to delegate procedural consent to conversational AI?	7
The ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic: the ethics of emerging inequalities amongst healthcare workers	7
Euthanasia in persons with advanced dementia: a dignity-enhancing care approach	7
Costa, cancer and coronavirus: contractualism as a guide to the ethics of lockdown	7
Risk-related standards of competence are a nonsense	7
Challenging misconceptions about clinical ethics support during COVID-19 and beyond: a legal update and future considerations	7
Novel drug candidates targeting Alzheimer’s disease: ethical challenges with identifying the relevant patient population	7
We might be afraid of black-box algorithms	7
Ethics of the fiduciary relationship between patient and physician: the case of informed consent	7
Need for patient-developed concepts of empowerment to rectify epistemic injustice and advance person-centred care	7
Philosophical evaluation of the conceptualisation of trust in the NHS’ Code of Conduct for artificial intelligence-driven technology	7
More than consent for ethical open-label placebo research	7
Ethics of digital contact tracing wearables	7
‘There is a lot of good in knowing, but there is also a lot of downs’: public views on ethical considerations in population genomic screening	7
Does the General Medical Council’s 2020 guidance on consent advance on its 2008 guidance?	7
Hospital chaplains as ethical consultants in making difficult medical decisions	7
Remote monitoring of medication adherence and patient and industry responsibilities in a learning health system	7
Red herrings, circuit-breakers and ageism in the COVID-19 debate	7
High court should not restrict access to puberty blockers for minors	7
Pregnancy and superior moral status: a proposal for two thresholds of personhood	7
Non-maleficence and the ethics of consent to cancer screening	7
Initiating technology dependence to sustain a child’s life: a systematic review of reasons	7
Should practice and policy be revised to allow for risk-proportional payment to human challenge study participants?	7
The inconsistency argument: why apparent pro-life inconsistency undermines opposition to induced abortion	7
Discrimination against the dying	6
Surgery during COVID-19 crisis conditions: can we protect our ethical integrity against the odds?	6
How to overcome lockdown: selective isolation versus contact tracing	6
Assessment of patient decision-making capacity in the context of voluntary euthanasia for psychic suffering caused by psychiatric disorders: a qualitative study of approaches among Belgian physicians	6
Association of medical futility with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) code status in hospitalised patients	6
Implementation of the EU clinical trial regulation transforms the ethics committee systems and endangers ethical standards	6
Accessing unproven interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic: discussion on the ethics of ‘compassionate therapies’ in times of catastrophic pandemics	6
Sleep softly: Schubert, ethics and the value of dying well	6
Making a case for the inclusion of refractory and severe mental illness as a sole criterion for Canadians requesting medical assistance in dying (MAiD): a review	6
Public justification and expert disagreement over non-pharmaceutical interventions for the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Pandemic medical ethics	6
Psychotherapy, placebos, and informed consent	6
Towards a new model of global health justice: the case of COVID-19 vaccines	6