Journal of Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Expanding choice at the end of life	118
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy	92
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al	84
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others	65
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation	53
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments and should be confined to clinical trials	50
Against the biological account of death	46
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation	45
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study	44
Missing voices: why youth perspectives are essential for Ubuntu bioethics in the context of HIV testing	43
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames	43
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows	42
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan	41
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics	37
Not all personal utilities are equal: a two-tier normative framework for genomic health technology assessment	37
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’	35
Manipulating embryogenesis and testing for potential: two real problems for the regulation of stem cell-based embryo models	35
Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond	33
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women	32
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral	30
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications	28
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being	27
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences	27
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy	26
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees	26

Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing children in utero does not imply the wrongness of abortion	25
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators	25
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron	24
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice	24
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity	24
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson	24
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI	23
Defending the impairment argument	23
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation	22
Dead donor rule unfazed: a response to Masek	21
Lessons from li : a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics	21
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen	20
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering	20
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue	20
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments	19
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism	19
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics	18
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA	18
Bipolar disorder and competence	17
Digital twin ethics, physiological constraints and real-time feedback	17
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study	17
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings	17
The moral obligation to have genetically related children	17
‘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
Why administration of lethal drugs should not be the role of the doctor	15
Consent and consents in contemporary healthcare	15
‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund	15
Guest editorial: Accommodating cultural differences in the International Conference of Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice guidelines	15
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study	15
Unexpecting: abortion, informed consent and transformative experiences	15
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare	14
Phenomenology of pregnancy: moral consequences for abortion	14
Between intention and side effect: evaluation of consciousness diminution under the doctrine of double effect	14
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death	14
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties	14
Dead donor rule: death, dysfunction and bodily respect	14
How can non-inferiority studies with mortality end points be ethically justified?	14
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox	14
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?	13
Balancing public health and individual autonomy: a study of China’s vaccination policy	13
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: responding to critics	13
For the sake of multifacetedness. Why artificial intelligence patient preference prediction systems shouldn’t be for next of kin	13
Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?	13
The boycott of the Israeli Medical Association by the British Medical Association: a critical appraisal	13
A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice	13
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients	13
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response	13
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?	13
Reassessing the role of informed decision-making in cardiac xenotransplantation	12
How ‘non-invasive’ is non-invasive prenatal testing?	12

Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction	12
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity	12
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?’	12
No jab, no access? Is differential treatment based on vaccination (wrongfully) discriminatory?	12
Ethics of AI in medicine: how smarter systems lead to tougher judgments	12
Is the integrated/non-integrated distinction for embryo models really obsolete?	12
When to create embryos or organoids for research	11
Digital twins for trans people in healthcare: queer, phenomenological and bioethical considerations	11
Expanding health justice to consider the environment: how can bioethics avoid reinforcing epistemic injustice?	11
Global health and global governance of emerging biomedical technologies	11
When biological ageing is desirable? A reply to García-Barranqueroet al	11
In vitro fertilisation mix-ups and contested parenthood	11
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor	11
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry	11
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers: a response to commentaries	11
Non-voluntary BCI explantation: assessing possible neurorights violations in light of contrasting mental ontologies	11
Concepts in African philosophy to improve bioethics	11
Defending deference: author’s response to commentaries	10
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries	10
Bearing witness and the ethical place of the medical student	10
Ethics briefing	10
Epistemic justice in bioethics: interculturality and the possibility of reparations	10
Reconsidering double-effect sedation: clinical perspectives beyond intentions	10
Javanese ethical concepts in health and healing	10
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency	10
PDMP causes more than just testimonial injustice	10
Incentivising civility in clinical environments	10
Fetal reduction, moral permissibility and the all or nothing problem	10
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes	10
Assent: going beyond acknowledgement for fair inclusion	10
Identity-relative paternalism fails to achieve its apparent goal	10
This little piggy can’t leave the open market	9
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy	9
It is not about autonomy: realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI preference predictors in healthcare	9
Polygenic risk scores and embryonic screening: considerations for regulation	9
Autonomy-centred assisted death laws still avoid expressivism	9
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?	9
Subhumans, human flourishing and abortion: a reply to Räsänen	9
A qualitative study of true self judgments, epistemic access, and medical decision-making	9
Minute particulars	9
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders	9
Aligning goals, not perceptions: making space for illness perception in paediatric decision-making	9
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins?	9
Moral parenthood: not gestational	9
Assessing the performance of ChatGPT in bioethics: a large language model’s moral compass in medicine	9
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids	9
What if all participants get the same treatment? An ethical perspective on single arm trials	8
Shibumi: acerbic beauty of the aged face	8
Manufacturing safer medics	8
Expanded terminal sedation: too removed from real-world practice	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
AI-powered psychotherapy as a model for improving disclosure and substitute judgment	8
Trans embodiment out of line: a queer phenomenological reflection on digital twins in healthcare	8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity	8
Broadening the debate: the future of JME feature articles	8
Pregnancy loss in the context of AAPT: speculation over substance?	8
How is clinical ethics reasoning done in practice? A review of the empirical literature	8
Beyond instrumental rationality: a thicker account of intention in double-effect sedation	8
The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care	8
Ethics briefings	8
Bringing context into ethical discussion: what, when and who?	8
A Sleight of Hand	8
Igwebuike: an African concept for an inclusive medical ethics	8
Give incivility a chance	7
What makes a medical intervention invasive?	7
Scaffolding informed consent	7
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust	7
Ethical problems with kindness in healthcare	7
Loneliness at the age of COVID-19	7
From AI SIM to AI twinning: a spectrum of digital representations of persons	7
Charting the ethical landscape of generative AI-augmented clinical documentation	7
Normalising transparency: an argument for requiring generative AI use declarations in all manuscripts—with a call for commentaries	7
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate	7
Does normothermic regional perfusion harm donors after circulatory death?	7
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture: towards a systems approach to health and climate	7
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism	7
Is ageing still undesirable? A reply to Räsänen	7
Need for greater post-trial support for clinical trial participants assessing high-risk, irreversible treatments	7
Respecting the right to refuse: is decision-making capacity disproportionately challenged in patients declining medical care in order to treat?	7
Extending patient-centred communication to non-speaking intellectually disabled persons	7

Assessing the impact of information on patient attitudes toward artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI/CDS): a pilot web-based SMART vignette study	6
Informed decision-making in labour: action required	6
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power	6
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency	6
Beyond individual autonomy: relational dimensions of the right not to know	6
Embryo models and the regulatory void: ethical imperatives before legal action	6
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition	6
Pragmatic defence of the register system: strengthening Clarke’s consequentialist case for managing conscientious objection	6
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy	6
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action	6
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction	6
Keep calm but do not carry on: ethical issues with the recommendations made by the Cass Review—Giordano response to the commentaries	6
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller	6
Problems with adversarial cooperation: identity, representation and bias	6
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics	6
Something old, something new? The Journal of Medical Ethics turns 50	6
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests	6
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’	6
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?	6
Ethics briefing	6
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments	6
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent	6
Keep calm and think twice: methodological issues with the recommendations by Giordano (2025)	6
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour	6
Reversibility and indefinite treatment: implications for consent and widening inequalities – a response to Ryan and Savulescu	6
Pretending to care	6
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau	6
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues	6
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate	6
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications	6
Suicide is not a public health issue and perhaps very few things should be	6
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?	5
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?	5
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability	5
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia	5
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand	5
No consent for brain death testing	5
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation	5
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research	5
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	5
Organ markets are always the best option	5
Conscientious commitment, professional obligations and abortion provision after the reversal ofRoe v Wade	5
Emotions and affects: the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of understanding risk attitudes in medical decision-making	5
Misalignments of values and preferences: Finding an ideal elder care arrangement	5
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive	5
Review of research ethics guidelines on payment of healthy volunteers	5
Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon	5
When is suicide a public health issue?	5
Ethics of college vaccine mandates, using reasonable comparisons	5
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics	5
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology	5
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means	5
Ethics briefing	5
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’	5
Seva (सेवा): selfless service	5
Words matter: ‘enduring intolerable suffering’ and the provider-side peril of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada	5
Correction: Guest editorial: Care not criminalisation; reform of British abortion law is long overdue	5
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future	5
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making	5
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey	5
Bioethics and the value of disagreement	5
Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making	5
On the risks of depersonalizing consent and the safe implementation of LLMs in medical decision-making	5
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal	5
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion	5
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing	5
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model	5
Moral universe of Muslim healthcare practitioners in the UK: balancing Islamic and secular ethics in palliative and end-of-life care	5
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: how should lawful assisted dying provision be established in England and Wales, and at what cost?	5
Civility and scientific excellence: two dimensions of medical professionalism	5
Ethical analysis on time-limited trials in critical care	4
Root causes of organisational failure: look up, not down	4
Clinicians’ criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience	4
The dead donor rule is far from perfect, but context is key	4
Navigating the ambiguity of invasiveness: is it warranted? A response to De Marcoet al	4
The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies	4
Environmental sustainability and the paradox of prevention	4
Rethinking medical invasiveness in the clinical encounter	4
Autonomy versus exclusion in xenotransplantation trials	4
ICoME and the moral significance of telemedicine	4
On interpreters: the ethics of interpreter use in general practice	4
Guerrilla eugenics: gene drives in heritable human genome editing	4
Reconsidering reinterpretation: response to commentaries	4
Authors meet critics: What is a person? Untapped insights from Africa	4
RETRACTED: Panem, corticoids and circenses: the ethical fallout of Enhanced Games	4
Discussion of off-target and tentative genomic findings may sometimes be necessary to allow evaluation of their clinical significance	4
Argument for allowing first-in-human cardiac xenotransplantation clinical trials in paediatric patients	4
It’s still about ethics, isn’t it?	4
What is fair? Ethical analysis of triage criteria and disability rights during the COVID-19 pandemic and the German legislation	4
Principle consistency is not practice justification: why Masek’s critique of the dead donor rule proves less than it appears	4
Double standards in the debate on protecting all children from genital cutting: a response to Ahmadu et al	4
Critical dialogue method of ethics consultation: making clinical ethics facilitation visible and accessible	4
Ethical preparedness and developments in genomic healthcare	4
Time-sensitive hybrid model for parent allocation in IVF embryo mix-ups	4
Where is knowledge from the global South? An account of epistemic justice for a global bioethics	4