Journal of Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Expanding choice at the end of life	99
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy	66
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al	65
Missing voices: why youth perspectives are essential for Ubuntu bioethics in the context of HIV testing	62
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
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows	38
Privacy, autonomy and direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a response to Vayena	38
Differences between sperm sharing and egg sharing are morally relevant	36
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics	35
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames	35
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation	34
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others	33
How low can you go? Justified hesitancy and the ethics of childhood vaccination against COVID-19	32
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation	32
Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond	30
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments and should be confined to clinical trials	29
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study	28
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women	27
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral	27
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue	26
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications	25
Health disparities from pandemic policies: reply to critics	25
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism	23
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences	23

Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being	23
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments	22
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation	22
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators	22
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees	22
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy	21
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen	20
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity	19
Defending the impairment argument	18
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI	18
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson	18
Non-accommodationism and conscientious objection in healthcare: a response to Robinson	18
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice	18
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing children in utero does not imply the wrongness of abortion	18
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron	18
Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model	17
Lessons fromli: a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics	17
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering	16
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?	16
‘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
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox	15
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients	15
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
For the sake of multifacetedness. Why artificial intelligence patient preference prediction systems shouldn’t be for next of kin	14
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study	13
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA	13
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings	13
The moral obligation to have genetically related children	13
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties	13
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death	13
Between intention and side effect: evaluation of consciousness diminution under the doctrine of double effect	12
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics	12
Phenomenology of pregnancy: moral consequences for abortion	12
Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?	12
US adults’ preferences for race-based and place-based prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccines	12
Unexpecting: abortion, informed consent and transformative experiences	12
Bipolar disorder and competence	12
How can non-inferiority studies with mortality end points be ethically justified?	12
Looking back and looking forward	11
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study	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
Digital twin ethics, physiological constraints and real-time feedback	11
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response	11
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor	11
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare	11
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?	11
Is the integrated/non-integrated distinction for embryo models really obsolete?	11

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

Scaffolding informed consent	6
Trans embodiment out of line: a queer phenomenological reflection on digital twins in healthcare	6
Beyond instrumental rationality: a thicker account of intention in double-effect sedation	6
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?	5
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau	5
Something old, something new? The Journal of Medical Ethics turns 50	5
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy	5
Informed decision-making in labour: action required	5
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction	5
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments	5
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics	5
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications	5
Pretending to care	5
Centring race, deprivation, and disease severity in healthcare priority setting	5
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency	5
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller	5
Directed and conditional uterus donation	5
Keep calm but do not carry on: ethical issues with the recommendations made by the Cass Review—Giordano response to the commentaries	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
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins	5
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent	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
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues	5
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour	5
Embryo models and the regulatory void: ethical imperatives before legal action	5
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate	5
Constructing a South Asian cardiovascular disease: a qualitative analysis on how researchers study cardiovascular disease in South Asians	5
Keep calm and think twice: methodological issues with the recommendations by Giordano (2025)	5
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests	5
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power	5
Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich	5
Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care	5
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation	4
Where the ethical action is	4
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means	4
Ethics round table: choice and autonomy in obstetrics	4
Review of research ethics guidelines on payment of healthy volunteers	4
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing	4
Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making	4
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive	4
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’	4
Keeping the humans in the loop: why surrogate human decision-makers remain necessary with personalised patient preference predictors (P4) use	4
In the room when it happens	4
Ethics of college vaccine mandates, using reasonable comparisons	4
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?	4
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability	4
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future	4
Dynamic consent: a royal road to research consent?	4
Facial recognition law in China	4
Are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?	4
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology	4
(Un)equal treatment in the ‘tobacco-free generation’	4
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model	4
Rewriting the will: Autonomy and pharmacological desire modification in semaglutide use	4
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?	4
‘Empathy counterbalancing’ to mitigate the ‘identified victim effect’? Ethical reflections on cognitive debiasing strategies to increase support for healthcare priority setting	4
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand	4
Correction:Guest editorial: Care not criminalisation; reform of British abortion law is long overdue	4
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition	4
Civility and scientific excellence: two dimensions of medical professionalism	4
Ethics briefing	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
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey	4
Bioethics and the value of disagreement	4
Misalignments of values and preferences: Finding an ideal elder care arrangement	4
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research	4
Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia	4
Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences of an ageing world	4
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA	4
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics	4
Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide	4
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making	4
Reply: The ethics of Ozempic and Wegovy	4
First among equals? Adaptive preferences and the limits of autonomy in medical ethics	4
Self-harm in immigration detention: political, not (just) medical	4
On the risks of depersonalizing consent and the safe implementation of LLMs in medical decision-making	4
Emotions and affects: the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of understanding risk attitudes in medical decision-making	4
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia	4
Should coronavirus policies remain in place to prevent future paediatric influenza deaths?	4
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’	4
Ethics briefing	4
Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof	4
Words matter: ‘enduring intolerable suffering’ and the provider-side peril of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada	4
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion	4
When is suicide a public health issue?	4
Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon	4
How do US orthopaedic surgeons view placebo-controlled surgical trials? A pilot online survey study	4
No consent for brain death testing	4
Conscientious commitment, professional obligations and abortion provision after the reversal ofRoe v Wade	4
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal	4
Seva (सेवा): selfless service	4
No right answer: officials need discretion on whether to allow natural immunity exemptions	3
Dying in a terminal society: a response to Maung	3
Materialising and fostering organisational morisprudence through ethics support tools	3