Journal of Medical Ethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Medical Ethics is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Expanding choice at the end of life98
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy75
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al64
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation52
How low can you go? Justified hesitancy and the ethics of childhood vaccination against COVID-1949
Privacy, autonomy and direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a response to Vayena46
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows46
Differences between sperm sharing and egg sharing are morally relevant45
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics35
Defending two dilemmas33
In defence of our model for just healthcare systems: why an explicit philosophy is needed in addition to the law, and how Scanlon helps derive just policies31
Correction:Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials30
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames30
Testimonial injustice: considering caregivers in paediatric behavioural healthcare30
Flawed reasoning on two dilemmas: a commentary on Baron and Dierckxsens (2021)30
Family experiences with non-therapeutic research on dying patients in the intensive care unit27
Who will receive the last ventilator: why COVID-19 policies should not prioritise healthcare workers27
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan26
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others25
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’25
Patients, clinicians and open notes: information blocking as a case of epistemic injustice24
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation24
The Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court regarding assisted suicide: a template for pluralistic states?23
To be, or not to be? The role of the unconscious in transgender transitioning: identity, autonomy and well-being22
Lessons fromli: a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics22
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women21
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity21
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism21
Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI20
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being20
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation20
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue20
Non-accommodationism and conscientious objection in healthcare: a response to Robinson19
Health disparities from pandemic policies: reply to critics19
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees18
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators18
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments18
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy18
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson17
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral17
Defending the impairment argument17
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing childrenin uterodoes not imply the wrongness of abortion17
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen17
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences17
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice17
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron16
Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model16
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications16
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering16
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI16
Should rare diseases get special treatment?16
The moral obligation to have genetically related children15
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox15
Survey of German medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: attitudes toward volunteering versus compulsory service and associated factors15
‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund15
Euthanasia in persons with advanced dementia: a dignity-enhancing care approach15
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics14
Self-reported physician attitudes and behaviours towards incarcerated patients14
Bipolar disorder and competence14
Doctors have an ethical obligation to ask patients about food insecurity: what is stopping us?14
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare14
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?14
Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?14
Epistemic injustice, children and mental illness13
Three for me and none for you? An ethical argument for delaying COVID-19 boosters13
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings13
Commentary to ‘Novel drug candidates targeting Alzheimer’s disease: ethical challenges with identifying the relevant patient population’13
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients13
‘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 suicide13
For the sake of multifacetedness. Why artificial intelligence patient preference prediction systems shouldn’t be for next of kin13
Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans12
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study12
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study12
Moral status of the fetus and the permissibility of abortion: a contractarian response to Thomson’s violinist thought experiment12
US adults’ preferences for race-based and place-based prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccines12
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties12
Heritable human genome editing is ‘currently not permitted’, but it is no longer ‘prohibited’: so says the ISSCR12
Looking back and looking forward12
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death12
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA12
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response11
Expanding health justice to consider the environment: how can bioethics avoid reinforcing epistemic injustice?11
The ethics of semantics in medicine11
Where the ethical action also is: a response to Hardman and Hutchinson11
When biological ageing is desirable? A reply to García-Barranqueroet al11
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?11
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?’11
Digital twins for trans people in healthcare: queer, phenomenological and bioethical considerations10
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity10
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 algorithm10
Placement of long-acting reversible contraception for minors who are mothers should not require parental consent10
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor10
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers: a response to commentaries10
Intimacy for older adults in long-term care: a need, a right, a privilege—or a kind of care?10
Non-voluntary BCI explantation: assessing possible neurorights violations in light of contrasting mental ontologies10
A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice10
Reassessing the role of informed decision-making in cardiac xenotransplantation10
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction10
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry10
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: responding to critics10
Using meconium to establish prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK: ethical, legal and social considerations10
Assent: going beyond acknowledgement for fair inclusion9
Subhumans, human flourishing and abortion: a reply to Räsänen9
Clinical law: what do clinicians want to know? The demography of clinical law9
Perspectives on digital twins and the (im)possibilities of control9
Global health and global governance of emerging biomedical technologies9
Epistemic justice in bioethics: interculturality and the possibility of reparations9
This little piggy can’t leave the open market9
Fallacy of the last bed dilemma9
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency9
PDMP causes more than just testimonial injustice8
Defending deference: author’s response to commentaries8
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries8
It is not about autonomy: realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI preference predictors in healthcare8
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders8
The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care8
Fetal reduction, moral permissibility and the all or nothing problem8
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 media8
Identity-relative paternalism fails to achieve its apparent goal8
Polygenic risk scores and embryonic screening: considerations for regulation8
Assessing the performance of ChatGPT in bioethics: a large language model’s moral compass in medicine8
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids8
Concepts in African philosophy to improve bioethics8
Incentivising civility in clinical environments8
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes8
My body, still my choice: an objection to Hendricks on abortion8
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?8
Moral parenthood: not gestational8
Engagement without entanglement: a framework for non-sexual patient–physician boundaries8
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity8
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism7
Broadening the debate: the future of JME feature articles7
Ethical problems with kindness in healthcare7
Igwebuike: an African concept for an inclusive medical ethics7
Is ageing still undesirable? A reply to Räsänen7
A Sleight of Hand7
Expanded terminal sedation: too removed from real-world practice7
Risk-relativity is still a nonsense7
Surrogate uncertainty: who decides?7
Manufacturing safer medics7
Bringing context into ethical discussion: what, when and who?7
Pregnancy loss in the context of AAPT: speculation over substance?7
Scaffolding informed consent7
Vaccine mandates need a clear rationale to identify which exemptions are appropriate7
Broad concepts and messy realities: optimising the application of mental capacity criteria7
Loneliness at the age of COVID-197
What makes a medical intervention invasive?7
Extending patient-centred communication to non-speaking intellectually disabled persons7
Shibumi: acerbic beauty of the aged face7
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy6
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins6
Lord Sumption and the values of life, liberty and security: before and since the COVID-19 outbreak6
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture: towards a systems approach to health and climate6
Defining the undefinable: the black box problem in healthcare artificial intelligence6
How is clinical ethics reasoning done in practice? A review of the empirical literature6
Need for greater post-trial support for clinical trial participants assessing high-risk, irreversible treatments6
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?6
Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich6
Directed and conditional uterus donation6
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller6
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust6
AI-powered psychotherapy as a model for improving disclosure and substitute judgment6
Ethics briefings6
Assessing the impact of information on patient attitudes toward artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI/CDS): a pilot web-based SMART vignette study6
Double bad luck: Should rare diseases get special treatment?6
Centring race, deprivation, and disease severity in healthcare priority setting6
COVID-19 conscience tracing: mapping the moral distances of coronavirus6
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues6
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau6
Give incivility a chance6
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate6
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests6
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action6
Ethics briefing5
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments5
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent5
First among equals? Adaptive preferences and the limits of autonomy in medical ethics5
Simulating (some) individuals in a connected world5
Constructing a South Asian cardiovascular disease: a qualitative analysis on how researchers study cardiovascular disease in South Asians5
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications5
Why we should stop using animal-derived products on patients without their consent5
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’5
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model5
Mature minors and gender dysphoria: a matter for clinicians not courts5
Data for sale: trust, confidence and sharing health data with commercial companies5
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction5
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour5
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand5
Pretending to care5
Machine learning in medicine: should the pursuit of enhanced interpretability be abandoned?5
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate5
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics5
Abortion and the veil of ignorance: a response to Minehan5
Genetic discrimination in life insurance: a human rights issue5
In the room when it happens5
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency5
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics5
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power5
Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care5
Informed decision-making in labour: action required5
Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof5
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition5
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia5
Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide4
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future4
Futility: a perennial issue for medical ethics4
Bioethics and the value of disagreement4
Correction:Guest editorial: Care not criminalisation; reform of British abortion law is long overdue4
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology4
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means4
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation4
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability4
Are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?4
Ethical decision making during a healthcare crisis: a resource allocation framework and tool4
Where the ethical action is4
Age—not sex or gender—makes the case of Ellie Anderson Complex4
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive4
Ethics briefing4
Emotions and affects: the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of understanding risk attitudes in medical decision-making4
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research4
Autonomy is not a sufficient basis for analysing the choice for medical assistance in dying in unjust conditions: in favour of a dignity-based approach4
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?4
Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences of an ageing world4
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?4
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal4
Dynamic consent: a royal road to research consent?4
Ethics round table: choice and autonomy in obstetrics4
Accessing unproven interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic: discussion on the ethics of ‘compassionate therapies’ in times of catastrophic pandemics4
Genetic information, discrimination, philosophical pluralism and politics4
Does the General Medical Council’s 2020 guidance on consent advance on its 2008 guidance?4
Words matter: ‘enduring intolerable suffering’ and the provider-side peril of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada4
Should coronavirus policies remain in place to prevent future paediatric influenza deaths?4
Facial recognition law in China4
‘Empathy counterbalancing’ to mitigate the ‘identified victim effect’? Ethical reflections on cognitive debiasing strategies to increase support for healthcare priority setting4
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing4
Keeping the humans in the loop: why surrogate human decision-makers remain necessary with personalised patient preference predictors (P4) use4
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey4
No consent for brain death testing4
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’4
Justifiable discrimination? on Cameron et al’s proportionality test4
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion4
Self-harm in immigration detention: political, not (just) medical4
Protecting privacy in mandatory reporting of infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from a developing country4
Social determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: lessons from Canada4
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making4
A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution4
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