Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Bioethics is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis81
Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations48
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On the prospects of longtermism30
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Reproductive Technologies and family ties28
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines27
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications24
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies23
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial21
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent20
The delivery of health services as resistance19
The commonsense case for common morality17
Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View17
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners17
Digitally supported public health interventions through the lens of structural injustice: The case of mobile apps responding to violence against women and girls16
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children16
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics15
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Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm14
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics14
From Abstinence to Assistance: Antinatalism's Unexpected Endorsement of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence14
Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens14
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research14
A defense of ectogenic abortion14
Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship13
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies13
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness13
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation13
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research12
Freedom of choice and the tobacco endgame11
Freedom as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic11
Grief, trauma and mistaken identity: Ethically deceiving people living with dementia in complex cases11
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn11
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics10
Bioethics, public reason, and religion: The liberalism problem By Fleck, Leonard M., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 75. £17.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 978100907805410
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination10
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds10
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Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war10
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour9
Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient9
Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion9
Slow codes as ethical disobedience9
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Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity9
Racism in healthcare and bioethics8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?8
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye8
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics8
Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements8
Translational bioethics7
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Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection7
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
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views7
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers7
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging7
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Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations7
Ethicists and the Gaza War6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach6
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice6
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective6
Religious pluralism in healthcare6
Dementia care, robot pets, and aliefs6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing6
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Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’6
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What is special about conscientious objection?6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI6
Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation6
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Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction5
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care5
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
Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes5
The ethics of precision health5
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
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent5
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study5
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Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research5
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction4
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment4
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A critical take on procreative justice4
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
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited4
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar4
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?4
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work4
Does donor conception violate human dignity?4
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals4
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans4
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‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces4
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?4
The cambridge handbook of health research regulation Graeme Laurie, Edward Dove, Agomoni Ganguli‐Mitra, Catriona Mamillan, Emily Postan, Nayha Sethi, and Annie Sorbie (Eds.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U4
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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
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death4
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views3
Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?3
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A theory of triage3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws3
Time to rethink assisted dying?3
Why restrict medical effective altruism?3
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
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐193
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration3
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs3
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Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities3
On the morality of vaccination tourism3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?3
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza3
Military medical ethics in contemporary armed conflict: Mobilizing medicine in the pursuit of just warMichael L.GrossOxford University Press:Oxford,2021. 304 pp. ISBN 978‐0190694944. £29.99 (Paperback3
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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
The ethical gene3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value3
The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications3
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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 978‐1‐4696‐7159‐83
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being3
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?3
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism3
Substituted judgment for the never‐capacitated: Crossing Storar's bridge too far3
Developing a living lab in ethics: Initial issues and observations2
Is suffering a sufficient legitimation for UTx?2
Good principles, badly applied: Logical and ethical inconsistencies in selecting Qatar as a venue for the WCB2
Against epigenetic responsibility: The problem of causality in ‘foetal programming’ science2
Autonomy, power, and place: Ethical considerations at the intersections of substance use care, and the sex trade2
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The ethical indefensibility of heartbeat bills2
An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers2
Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiD2
A defense of conscientious objection: Why health is integral to the permissibility of medical refusals2
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists?2
Is enhancement inherently ableist?2
Artificial intelligence in clinical decision‐making: Rethinking personal moral responsibility2
Towards equitable genomics governance in Africa: Guiding principles from theories of global health governance and the African moral theory of Ubuntu2
Being a patient among other patients: Refugees' political inclusion through the Austrian solidarity‐based healthcare system2
Are companies ethically justified in offering nonmedical egg freezing as an employee benefit?2
The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity. Ord, Toby. New York: Hachette, 2020. 468 pp. US$30. ISBN 9780316484916 (Hardback).2
The fairness of ventilator allocation during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Religious preferences in healthcare: A welfarist approach2
Healthspan extension, completeness of life and justice2
Patient‐led innovation and global health justice: Open‐source digital health technology for type 1 diabetes care2
Psilocybin: The most effective moral bio‐enhancer?2
Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies2
Workplace heating and gender discrimination2
The ethics of mHealth as a global phenomenon2
Stewardship according to context: Justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations 2
Autonomy and prevention: From conflicting to complementary aims of prenatal screening2
All research that might result in a pandemic must undergo external review2
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Should the European Medicines Agency consider ageing a disease?2
Religious pluralism and the ethics of healthcare2
Ethics of Identifying Individuals Involved in HIV Transmission Events by Phylogenetics in Molecular Surveillance2
Conscientious Refuser Accommodation Continues to Undermine Patient Care2
Whose (germ) line is it anyway? Reproductive technologies and kinship2
Therapeutic misunderstandings in modern research2
Arguments against a “general and permanent” ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A response to Clune‐Taylor2
Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions2
Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics?2
Steering clear of Akrasia: An integrative review of self‐binding Ulysses Contracts in clinical practice2
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Nature‐versus‐nurture considered harmful: Actionability as an alternative tool for understanding the exposome from an ethical perspective2
A justification of health policy federalism2
Contraception is not a reductio of Marquis2
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The case against death Ingemar Patrick Linden Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780262543163 $45.00 (Paperback); $31.99 (Kindle).2
Critique of autonomy‐based arguments against legalising assisted dying2
Moral expertise without moral elitism2
An imbalanced approach to governance? An analysis of the WHO's position on human genome editing2
Euthanasia, consensual homicide, and refusal of treatment2
The ethical‐legal requirements for adolescent self‐consent to research in sub‐Saharan Africa: A scoping review2
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On Religious Influence in Bioethics: The Limits of Pluriversalism2
World Congress of Bioethics in Qatar raises ethical questions2
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
Assisting, Replicating, or Autonomously Acting? An Ethical Framework for Integrating AI Tools and Technologies in Healthcare2
Assisted suicide and the discrimination argument: Can people with mental illness fulfill beneficence‐ and autonomy‐based eligibility criteria?1
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
When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health1
Decolonizing health care: Challenges of cultural and epistemic pluralism in medical decision‐making with Indigenous communities1
Can a human right to good mental health be justified?1
Future‐like‐ours as a metaphysical reductio ad absurdum argument of personal identity1
Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction1
Phenomenology and empowerment in self‐testing apps1
Truthfulness in dementia care1
Simulated gestation: The social and ethical implications of in vivo fertilisation technology1
Rethinking the issue of reparations for Black Americans1
Patients' preferences for distributing limited government‐funded IVF cycles1
Ectogenesis and gender inequality: Two pathways converge1
Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage1
Patient autonomy and withholding information1
Bioethics challenges in times of war1
Kidney donors' interests and the prohibition on sales1
The promises and limitations of codes of medical ethics as instruments of policy change1
Healthcare Resource Allocation and Environmental Sustainability1
Response to the ISSCR guidelines on human–animal chimera research1
IAB Presidential Address: Bioethics, justice, and lessons from a global pandemic1
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Ethical challenges in health care during collective hunger strikes in public or occupied spaces1
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Old by obsolescence: The paradox of aging in the digital era1
Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racism1
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How should severity be understood in the context of reproductive genetic carrier screening?1
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IAB 16th World Congress1
Striking a Balance in Reproductive Genetic Counseling: Directiveness for Testing, Non‐Directiveness About Selection1
Accounting for future populations in health research1
Embryo selection, gene editing, and the person‐affecting principle1
Self‐Giving and Reflections on Life Extension: How Love Might Shape the Choice of Whether to Live Past a Natural Human Lifespan1
Three kinds of suffering and their relative moral significance1
The imperative of professional dementia care1
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Lessons from Africa: Ubuntu, solidarity, dignity, kinship, and humility1
Freedom and responsibility in the COVID debate1
Equity and COVID‐19 treatment allocation: A questionable criterion1
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Can prolife theorists justify an exception for rape?1
Solidarity and the ethics of exposing others to risk in medical research1
The selective deployment of AI in healthcare1
‘Mad’, bad or Muslim? The UK's Vulnerability Support Hubs and the nexus of mental health, counterterrorism and racism1
Vaccination status and intensive care unit triage: Is it fair to give unvaccinated Covid‐19 patients equal priority?1
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