Journal of Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Expanding choice at the end of life	96
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy	62
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al	61
Missing voices: why youth perspectives are essential for Ubuntu bioethics in the context of HIV testing	60
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’	47
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan	39
How low can you go? Justified hesitancy and the ethics of childhood vaccination against COVID-19	36
Correction:Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials	36
Privacy, autonomy and direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a response to Vayena	35
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows	35
Differences between sperm sharing and egg sharing are morally relevant	34
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation	34
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others	33
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation	30
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study	29
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames	29
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics	29
Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond	27
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral	25
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women	25
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications	24
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue	24
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism	23
Health disparities from pandemic policies: reply to critics	23
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences	23

Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering	22
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being	22
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy	21
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees	21
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation	21
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments	21
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators	20
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity	19
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen	18
Defending the impairment argument	18
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing children in utero does not imply the wrongness of abortion	17
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI	17
Non-accommodationism and conscientious objection in healthcare: a response to Robinson	17
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson	17
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron	16
Should rare diseases get special treatment?	16
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice	16
Lessons fromli: a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics	16
Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model	16
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox	15
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?	15
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients	15
Bipolar disorder and competence	15
‘How is it possible that at times we can be physicians and at times assistants in suicide?’ Attitudes and experiences of palliative care physicians in respect of the current legal situation of suicide	15
Balancing public health and individual autonomy: a study of China’s vaccination policy	15
For the sake of multifacetedness. Why artificial intelligence patient preference prediction systems shouldn’t be for next of kin	14
Why administration of lethal drugs should not be the role of the doctor	14
‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund	14
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties	13
Phenomenology of pregnancy: moral consequences for abortion	13
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA	13
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare	13
The moral obligation to have genetically related children	13
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings	13
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study	12
How can non-inferiority studies with mortality end points be ethically justified?	12
Digital twin ethics, physiological constraints and real-time feedback	12
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death	12
US adults’ preferences for race-based and place-based prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccines	12
Looking back and looking forward	11
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study	11
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?	11
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics	11
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response	11
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor	11
Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?	11
Non-voluntary BCI explantation: assessing possible neurorights violations in light of contrasting mental ontologies	11
When biological ageing is desirable? A reply to García-Barranqueroet al	11
When to create embryos or organoids for research	10
Reassessing the role of informed decision-making in cardiac xenotransplantation	10

How ‘non-invasive’ is non-invasive prenatal testing?	10
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction	10
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: responding to critics	10
Using meconium to establish prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK: ethical, legal and social considerations	10
Is the integrated/non-integrated distinction for embryo models really obsolete?	10
Where the ethical action also is: a response to Hardman and Hutchinson	10
Care for well-being or respect for dignity? A commentary on Soofi’s ‘what moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?’	10
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry	9
Expanding health justice to consider the environment: how can bioethics avoid reinforcing epistemic injustice?	9
Tale of two countries: attitudes towards older persons in Italy and Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic as seen through the looking-glass of the media	9
Fetal reduction, moral permissibility and the all or nothing problem	9
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers: a response to commentaries	9
Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans	9
Moral parenthood: not gestational	9
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency	9
My body, still my choice: an objection to Hendricks on abortion	9
Global health and global governance of emerging biomedical technologies	9
Digital twins for trans people in healthcare: queer, phenomenological and bioethical considerations	9
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity	9
Concepts in African philosophy to improve bioethics	9
Epistemic justice in bioethics: interculturality and the possibility of reparations	9
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes	9
A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice	9
PDMP causes more than just testimonial injustice	8
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins?	8
Autonomy-centred assisted death laws still avoid expressivism	8
Defending deference: author’s response to commentaries	8
Identity-relative paternalism fails to achieve its apparent goal	8
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids	8
Incentivising civility in clinical environments	8
Javanese ethical concepts in health and healing	8
Ethics briefing	8
Assent: going beyond acknowledgement for fair inclusion	8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity	8
This little piggy can’t leave the open market	8
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries	8
A qualitative study of true self judgments, epistemic access, and medical decision-making	8
Polygenic risk scores and embryonic screening: considerations for regulation	8
Clinical law: what do clinicians want to know? The demography of clinical law	8
Assessing the performance of ChatGPT in bioethics: a large language model’s moral compass in medicine	8
Using coercion in mental disorders or risking the patient’s death? An analysis of the protocols of a clinical ethics committee and a derived decision algorithm	8
Reconsidering double-effect sedation: clinical perspectives beyond intentions	7
The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care	7
Ethical problems with kindness in healthcare	7
Subhumans, human flourishing and abortion: a reply to Räsänen	7
It is not about autonomy: realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI preference predictors in healthcare	7
Ethics briefings	7
Broadening the debate: the future of JME feature articles	7
Bearing witness and the ethical place of the medical student	7
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?	7
Manufacturing safer medics	7
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders	7
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy	7
How is clinical ethics reasoning done in practice? A review of the empirical literature	6
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate	6
Risk-relativity is still a nonsense	6
Igwebuike: an African concept for an inclusive medical ethics	6
Charting the ethical landscape of generative AI-augmented clinical documentation	6
Need for greater post-trial support for clinical trial participants assessing high-risk, irreversible treatments	6
Loneliness at the age of COVID-19	6
Does normothermic regional perfusion harm donors after circulatory death?	6
Extending patient-centred communication to non-speaking intellectually disabled persons	6
Give incivility a chance	6
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust	6
Expanded terminal sedation: too removed from real-world practice	6
What if all participants get the same treatment? An ethical perspective on single arm trials	6
A Sleight of Hand	6
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture: towards a systems approach to health and climate	6
Scaffolding informed consent	6
AI-powered psychotherapy as a model for improving disclosure and substitute judgment	6
Shibumi: acerbic beauty of the aged face	6
Trans embodiment out of line: a queer phenomenological reflection on digital twins in healthcare	6
Vaccine mandates need a clear rationale to identify which exemptions are appropriate	6
Bringing context into ethical discussion: what, when and who?	6
Pregnancy loss in the context of AAPT: speculation over substance?	6
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism	6
Respecting the right to refuse: is decision-making capacity disproportionately challenged in patients declining medical care in order to treat?	6
What makes a medical intervention invasive?	6
Is ageing still undesirable? A reply to Räsänen	6
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour	5

Pretending to care	5
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent	5
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction	5
Assessing the impact of information on patient attitudes toward artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI/CDS): a pilot web-based SMART vignette study	5
Problems with adversarial cooperation: identity, representation and bias	5
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action	5
Something old, something new? The Journal of Medical Ethics turns 50	5
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau	5
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests	5
Double bad luck: Should rare diseases get special treatment?	5
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics	5
Directed and conditional uterus donation	5
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy	5
Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care	5
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate	5
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller	5
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power	5
Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich	5
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency	5
Centring race, deprivation, and disease severity in healthcare priority setting	5
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments	5
Constructing a South Asian cardiovascular disease: a qualitative analysis on how researchers study cardiovascular disease in South Asians	5
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues	5
Facial recognition law in China	4
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA	4
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability	4
Conscientious commitment, professional obligations and abortion provision after the reversal ofRoe v Wade	4
Bioethics and the value of disagreement	4
A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution	4
Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences of an ageing world	4
Ethics of college vaccine mandates, using reasonable comparisons	4
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research	4
Keeping the humans in the loop: why surrogate human decision-makers remain necessary with personalised patient preference predictors (P4) use	4
Civility and scientific excellence: two dimensions of medical professionalism	4
Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making	4
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?	4
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’	4
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology	4
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?	4
Should coronavirus policies remain in place to prevent future paediatric influenza deaths?	4
Keep calm and think twice: methodological issues with the recommendations by Giordano (2025)	4
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia	4
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal	4
On the risks of depersonalizing consent and the safe implementation of LLMs in medical decision-making	4
How do US orthopaedic surgeons view placebo-controlled surgical trials? A pilot online survey study	4
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means	4
Where the ethical action is	4
Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon	4
Self-harm in immigration detention: political, not (just) medical	4
Review of research ethics guidelines on payment of healthy volunteers	4
Words matter: ‘enduring intolerable suffering’ and the provider-side peril of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada	4
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand	4
Emotions and affects: the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of understanding risk attitudes in medical decision-making	4
Misalignments of values and preferences: Finding an ideal elder care arrangement	4
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition	4
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey	4
Ethics briefing	4
Correction:Guest editorial: Care not criminalisation; reform of British abortion law is long overdue	4
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications	4
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model	4
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins	4
First among equals? Adaptive preferences and the limits of autonomy in medical ethics	4
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics	4
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion	4
Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide	4
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation	4
Rewriting the will: Autonomy and pharmacological desire modification in semaglutide use	4
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future	4
‘Empathy counterbalancing’ to mitigate the ‘identified victim effect’? Ethical reflections on cognitive debiasing strategies to increase support for healthcare priority setting	4
No consent for brain death testing	4
Autonomy is not a sufficient basis for analysing the choice for medical assistance in dying in unjust conditions: in favour of a dignity-based approach	4
Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof	4
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive	4
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?	4
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’	4
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making	4
In the room when it happens	4
Ethics briefing	4
Informed decision-making in labour: action required	4
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing	4
Should medicine be colour blind?	3
Patient organisations, venture philanthropy and the ethics of pursuing cures over care	3
Capacity for life force, communality, and the scope of cross-cultural bioethics: additional thoughts on African Life Force and the Permissibility of Euthanasia	3
Reconsidering reinterpretation: response to commentaries	3
Autonomy versus exclusion in xenotransplantation trials	3
ICoME and the moral significance of telemedicine	3
It’s still about ethics, isn’t it?	3
Gestation most certainly matters, but it need not involve an ‘emotional relationship’	3
On interpreters: the ethics of interpreter use in general practice	3
Clinicians’ criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience	3
Root causes of organisational failure: look up, not down	3
Synthetic DNA and mitochondrial donation: no need for donor eggs?	3
Research ethics and public trust in vaccines: the case of COVID-19 challenge trials	3
Argument for allowing first-in-human cardiac xenotransplantation clinical trials in paediatric patients	3
Navigating the ambiguity of invasiveness: is it warranted? A response to De Marcoet al	3