Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Bioethics is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Little Things Mean A Lot40
The commonsense case for common morality28
Israel's Post‐War Healthcare Obligations24
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners23
On the prospects of longtermism23
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies23
I Feel I Need to Think about It: A Defence of Affective Moral Enhancement23
The delivery of health services as resistance22
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines22
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications21
Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?20
Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View18
Reproductive Technologies and family ties17
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent17
Respecting Rights Without Sanctioning Irrationality16
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial16
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds15
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A defense of ectogenic abortion15
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness13
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics13
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation12
From Abstinence to Assistance: Antinatalism's Unexpected Endorsement of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence11
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research11
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research11
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Bioethics, public reason, and religion: The liberalism problem By Fleck, Leonard M., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 75. £17.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 978100907805410
On the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza: A Reply to Lederman10
Out There No One Has a Right to Die10
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn10
Freedom as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic10
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war10
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies10
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics10
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Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion9
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?8
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Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient8
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination8
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour8
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection7
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Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity7
Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements7
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views7
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective7
Ethicists and the Gaza War7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation7
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers7
Slow codes as ethical disobedience7
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye7
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities7
Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know By Bonnie Steinbock and Paul T. Menzel, New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 308. $56.86 USD/$85.30 CDN (hardcover). ISBN 97801976579997, $20.95 USD/$20.7
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’7
Translational bioethics7
Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain By WalterGlannon, Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2025. 282 pp. USA$75.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐26‐255352‐07
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations7
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Blaming the Patient: The Ethical Failures of Responsibility‐Based Liver Transplant Policy in Alcohol Use Disorder6
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Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach6
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Facing Assisted Dying Requests Where It Is Illegal: Lessons From Clinical Ethics Consultations6
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Religious pluralism in healthcare6
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities6
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Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation6
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Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions6
How Going to Space Changes the Debate About Radical Human Enhancement6
Creating a safer and better functioning system: Lessons to be learned from the Netherlands for an ethical defence of an autonomy‐only approach to assisted dying5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care5
Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences5
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction5
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A Human Rights‐Based and Relational Justice Approach to Assisted Reproduction in Spain5
Inducing immunity? Justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesitancy By RolandPierik and MarcelVerweij, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 248. US $45.00. (Paperback). ISBN: 978026255
The ethics of precision health5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study5
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment4
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?4
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans4
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?4
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health4
“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research4
Should Terminal Sedation Be Expanded to Individuals Who Choose to Die Via the Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking?4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited4
The Credibility of Bioethics After the Gaza Genocide4
Bioethics reenvisioned: A path towards health justiceKing, Nancy M. P., Henderson, Gail E., Churchill, Larry R.Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 214 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐7159‐84
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces4
The Role of Medical Ethics in Voluntary Assisted Dying: A Regulatory Space Analysis4
Does donor conception violate human dignity?4
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals4
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Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes4
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Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work4
Against Moral Panic and Citation Fiction: A Critique of “Panem, Corticoids and Circenses” and a Proposal for Editorial Gatekeeping on Reference Integrity4
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?4
Why restrict medical effective altruism?4
The Clinician–Parent Paradox in Sharenting: Professional Responsibility, Parental Autonomy, and Children's Digital Vulnerability4
Resistance in health and healthcare: Applying Essex conceptualisation to a multiphased study on the experiences of Australian nurses and midwives who provide abortion care to people victimised by gend4
Biology of kindness: Six daily choices for health, well‐being, and longevity By ImmaculataDe Vivo and DanielLumera, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 264. $24.95 (Paperback); $24.99 (eBook). ISB4
A critical take on procreative justice4
Academic Integrity Is Coming Increasingly Under Attack From Academics Using AI Tools as a Short‐Cut to Publications4
Why It Is Wrong to Promote Alpha‐Gal Syndrome: A Response to Crutchfield and Hereth4
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A theory of triage4
The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications4
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws4
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction4
The sanctity of life as a sacred value3
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines3
Workplace heating and gender discrimination3
Reply to Letter to the Editor “Humanoid Children: An Anti‐Natalist Response to Aging, Suffering, and the Climate Crisis”3
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs3
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?3
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being3
Thoughtful Accompaniment in Life's Final Stages: Philosophical Practice as a Complement to Ethics Consultation3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐193
Nature‐versus‐nurture considered harmful: Actionability as an alternative tool for understanding the exposome from an ethical perspective3
All research that might result in a pandemic must undergo external review3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty3
Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism3
Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?3
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar3
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza3
Time to rethink assisted dying?3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration3
Islamic virtues and end‐of‐life decisions in clinical practice: A commentary on Mehrunisha Suleman, ‘The Balancing of Virtues—Muslim Perspectives on End of Life Care: Empirical research analysing the 3
Autonomy, power, and place: Ethical considerations at the intersections of substance use care, and the sex trade3
Good principles, badly applied: Logical and ethical inconsistencies in selecting Qatar as a venue for the WCB3
Response Paper: A Critical Review of Sprengholz's Public Preferences Regarding Slow Codes in Critical Care3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views3
The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem3
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Pain, Power, and Policing: Emotional Injustice in Healthcare3
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Psilocybin: The most effective moral bio‐enhancer?3
On Religious Influence in Bioethics: The Limits of Pluriversalism2
“Irresponsible Not to Share Such Important Information”: A Narrative of Responsibility That Underpins Familial Disclosure of Genetic Risk in Singapore2
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Contraception is not a reductio of Marquis2
Stewardship according to context: Justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations 2
Being a patient among other patients: Refugees' political inclusion through the Austrian solidarity‐based healthcare system2
Assisting, Replicating, or Autonomously Acting? An Ethical Framework for Integrating AI Tools and Technologies in Healthcare2
Religious pluralism and the ethics of healthcare2
World Congress of Bioethics in Qatar raises ethical questions2
Arguments against a “general and permanent” ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A response to Clune‐Taylor2
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists?2
Critique of autonomy‐based arguments against legalising assisted dying2
An imbalanced approach to governance? An analysis of the WHO's position on human genome editing2
An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers2
Therapeutic misunderstandings in modern research2
Religious preferences in healthcare: A welfarist approach2
Whose (germ) line is it anyway? Reproductive technologies and kinship2
The Ethics of Wegovy in Pediatric Mental Health2
Steering clear of Akrasia: An integrative review of self‐binding Ulysses Contracts in clinical practice2
Ethics of Identifying Individuals Involved in HIV Transmission Events by Phylogenetics in Molecular Surveillance2
The ethical indefensibility of heartbeat bills2
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Conscientious Refuser Accommodation Continues to Undermine Patient Care2
The ethics of mHealth as a global phenomenon2
Healthspan extension, completeness of life and justice2
Humanoid Children: An Anti‐Natalist Response to Aging, Suffering, and the Climate Crisis2
Developing a living lab in ethics: Initial issues and observations2
Is suffering a sufficient legitimation for UTx?2
Epigenetics and Responsibility: Ethical Perspectives By Moorman, Emma; Smajdor, Anna; Cutas, Daniela, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. pp. 145. $159.95 (Hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐2542‐62
What Is Space Bioethics?2
Neurotechnology Governance in the United States: Gaps and Opportunities2
Love (Drugs), Happiness, and Morality2
Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiD2
Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions2
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Are companies ethically justified in offering nonmedical egg freezing as an employee benefit?2
Euthanasia, consensual homicide, and refusal of treatment2
IAB 17th World Congress2
The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity. Ord, Toby. New York: Hachette, 2020. 468 pp. US$30. ISBN 9780316484916 (Hardback).2
Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics?2
Should the European Medicines Agency consider ageing a disease?2
Against epigenetic responsibility: The problem of causality in ‘foetal programming’ science2
Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies2
Autonomy and prevention: From conflicting to complementary aims of prenatal screening2
Maternal autonomy and prenatal harm1
Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage1
Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racism1
Response to the ISSCR guidelines on human–animal chimera research1
Can a human right to good mental health be justified?1
Future‐like‐ours as a metaphysical reductio ad absurdum argument of personal identity1
When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health1
The promises and limitations of codes of medical ethics as instruments of policy change1
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Dealing With Conflicts in Medical Decisions: Epistemic Reasonable Disagreement Between Parents and Medical Staff1
Vulnerability in Research Ethics?1
Accounting for future populations in health research1
Embryo selection, gene editing, and the person‐affecting principle1
Ethical considerations for biobanks serving underrepresented populations1
Three Sources of Incapacity in Anorexia Nervosa1
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Age‐related hearing loss and “hearables”: An agenda for moral considerations1
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When Is It Safe to Introduce an AI System Into Healthcare? A Practical Decision Algorithm for the Ethical Implementation of Black‐Box AI in Medicine1
Patient Participation in Clinical Ethics Interventions: A Requirement of Procedural and Epistemic Justice1
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War on All Fronts: A Theory of Health Security Justice By Nicholas G. Evans, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2023. pp. 258. $45.00 paperback. ISBN: 97802625454331
Self‐Giving and Reflections on Life Extension: How Love Might Shape the Choice of Whether to Live Past a Natural Human Lifespan1
The imperative of professional dementia care1
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Old by obsolescence: The paradox of aging in the digital era1
Bioethics challenges in times of war1
Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction1
The selective deployment of AI in healthcare1
Ethical considerations for non‐procreative uterus transplantation1
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Striking a Balance in Reproductive Genetic Counseling: Directiveness for Testing, Non‐Directiveness About Selection1
How should severity be understood in the context of reproductive genetic carrier screening?1
The emergence and use of expanded carrier screening in gamete donation: A new form of repro‐genetic selection1
Phenomenology and empowerment in self‐testing apps1
Ectogenesis and gender inequality: Two pathways converge1
Public Justification and Normatively Meaningful Bias: Against Imposing Egalitarian Accounts of Algorithmic Bias1
Ethical challenges in health care during collective hunger strikes in public or occupied spaces1
The Role of Medical Ethics in the Practices of Assisted Dying1
Non‐Emergent Oncologic Surgery Cancellation During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Risk–Benefit Analysis1
IAB 16th World Congress1
‘Out of My Hands’: Palestinian Referral Care in East Jerusalem After October 7, 20231
Patient autonomy and withholding information1
Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)1
Vaccination status and intensive care unit triage: Is it fair to give unvaccinated Covid‐19 patients equal priority?1
Assisted suicide and the discrimination argument: Can people with mental illness fulfill beneficence‐ and autonomy‐based eligibility criteria?1
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