Journal of Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic	169
Medical students and COVID-19: the need for pandemic preparedness	152
‘Healthcare Heroes’: problems with media focus on heroism from healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	151
Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?	108
The carnage of substandard research during the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for quality	98
Whose life to save? Scarce resources allocation in the COVID-19 outbreak	97
Who is afraid of black box algorithms? On the epistemological and ethical basis of trust in medical AI	93
Primer on an ethics of AI-based decision support systems in the clinic	83
Multivalue ethical framework for fair global allocation of a COVID-19 vaccine	76
Levels of stress in medical students due to COVID-19	74
Passport to freedom? Immunity passports for COVID-19	66
Triage during the COVID-19 epidemic in Spain: better and worse ethical arguments	56
Balancing the duty to treat with the duty to family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Represent me: please! Towards an ethics of digital twins in medicine	53
Defining the undefinable: the black box problem in healthcare artificial intelligence	48
Relational ethical approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic	47
Towards collective moral resilience: the potential of communities of practice during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	46
Ethics and ego dissolution: the case of psilocybin	45
‘Your country needs you’: the ethics of allocating staff to high-risk clinical roles in the management of patients with COVID-19	43
Nothing to be ashamed of: sex robots for older adults with disabilities	42
Persuasion, not coercion or incentivisation, is the best means of promoting COVID-19 vaccination	42
Why lockdown of the elderly is not ageist and why levelling down equality is wrong	41
Machine learning in medicine: should the pursuit of enhanced interpretability be abandoned?	40
Doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic: what are their duties and what is owed to them?	38
Ethics of research at the intersection of COVID-19 and black lives matter: a call to action	36

Ethical allocation of future COVID-19 vaccines	34
Money is not everything: experimental evidence that payments do not increase willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19	34
Who gets the ventilator? Important legal rights in a pandemic	33
Rationing, racism and justice: advancing the debate around ‘colourblind’ COVID-19 ventilator allocation	33
Should free-text data in electronic medical records be shared for research? A citizens’ jury study in the UK	32
Patients, clinicians and open notes: information blocking as a case of epistemic injustice	31
When patients refuse COVID-19 testing, quarantine, and social distancing in inpatient psychiatry: clinical and ethical challenges	29
Triage of critical care resources in COVID-19: a stronger role for justice	29
Vaccine ethics: an ethical framework for global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines	29
The need for empathetic healthcare systems	26
Responsibility, second opinions and peer-disagreement: ethical and epistemological challenges of using AI in clinical diagnostic contexts	26
The good, the bad and the ugly: pandemic priority decisions and triage	26
Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of COVID-19: what do people think?	26
Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research	25
Global equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for COVID-19: The role of patents as private governance	25
Solidarity is for other people: identifying derelictions of solidarity in responses to COVID-19	24
Dying individuals and suffering populations: applying a population-level bioethics lens to palliative care in humanitarian contexts: before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	24
What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines	24
Trust, trustworthiness and sharing patient data for research	24
Best interests versus resource allocation: could COVID-19 cloud decision-making for the cognitively impaired?	23
Mistrust and inconsistency during COVID-19: considerations for resource allocation guidelines that prioritise healthcare workers	23
Social determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: lessons from Canada	23
Payment in challenge studies: ethics, attitudes and a new payment for risk model	23
Incoming ethical issues for deep brain stimulation: when long-term treatment leads to a ‘new form of the disease’	23
Caster Semenya, athlete classification, and fair equality of opportunity in sport	23
The unnaturalistic fallacy: COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity	22
Ethicists, doctors and triage decisions: who should decide? And on what basis?	22
Male or female genital cutting: why ‘health benefits’ are morally irrelevant	22
Love thy neighbour? Allocating vaccines in a world of competing obligations	22
Balancing health worker well-being and duty to care: an ethical approach to staff safety in COVID-19 and beyond	22
Triage and justice in an unjust pandemic: ethical allocation of scarce medical resources in the setting of racial and socioeconomic disparities	21
What healthcare professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE)	21
Reviewing the womb	21
Becoming a medical assistance in dying (MAiD) provider: an exploration of the conditions that produce conscientious participation	21
Can we learn from hidden mistakes? Self-fulfilling prophecy and responsible neuroprognostic innovation	20
Sustainability principle for the ethics of healthcare resource allocation	20
Allocation of scarce resources during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Jewish ethical perspective	20
Consent in the time of COVID-19	20
Environmental sustainability and the carbon emissions of pharmaceuticals	20
Applying futility in psychiatry: a concept whose time has come	19
Trust does not need to be human: it is possible to trust medical AI	19
ICU triage in an impending crisis: uncertainty, pre-emption and preparation	19
Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI	19
Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: unresolved questions and future directions	19
How to fairly incentivise digital contact tracing	19
Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19	18
Revisiting the equity debate in COVID-19: ICU is no panacea	18
Where is knowledge from the global South? An account of epistemic justice for a global bioethics	18
Ethics of generative AI	18
The time has come to extend the 14-day limit	18

Promoting racial equity in COVID-19 resource allocation	17
Response to our reviewers	17
Testimonial injustice in medical machine learning	17
Ethics of the algorithmic prediction of goal of care preferences: from theory to practice	17
Human infection challenge studies in endemic settings and/or low-income and middle-income countries: key points of ethical consensus and controversy	17
Without a trace: Why did corona apps fail?	16
Mitigating ethical conflict and moral distress in the care of patients on ECMO: impact of an automatic ethics consultation protocol	16
Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials	16
Tragic choices in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: on fairness, consistency and community	16
Frauds in scientific research and how to possibly overcome them	16
Immunity passports, fundamental rights and public health hazards: a reply to Brown et al	16
Epistemic injustice in psychiatric practice: epistemic duties and the phenomenological approach	16
Forever young? The ethics of ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults	16
The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies	16
COVID-19 and beyond: the ethical challenges of resetting health services during and after public health emergencies	16
Vaccine passports and health disparities: a perilous journey	16
The right not to know and the obligation to know	16
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda: unmasking the betrayal of ‘Healthcare Heroes’	16
National health system cuts and triage decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain: ethical implications	16
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry	15
Data for sale: trust, confidence and sharing health data with commercial companies	15
‘Can you hear me?’: communication, relationship and ethics in video-based telepsychiatric consultations	15
WHO’s allocation framework for COVAX: is it fair?	15
Diversity in clinical research: public health and social justice imperatives	15
Commercial DNA tests and police investigations: a broad bioethical perspective	15
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders	14
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity	14
Research abuses against people of colour and other vulnerable groups in early psychedelic research	14
Does Zero-COVID neglect health disparities?	14
Why continuing uncertainties are no reason to postpone challenge trials for coronavirus vaccines	14
Integrating philosophy, policy and practice to create a just and fair health service	14
COVID-19 pandemic, the scarcity of medical resources, community-centred medicine and discrimination against persons with disabilities	14
Against vaccine nationalism	14
Ethics of selective restriction of liberty in a pandemic	14
Is withdrawing treatment really more problematic than withholding treatment?	14
Ethical guidelines for deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19	14
Three models for the regulation of polygenic scores in reproduction	14
AI support for ethical decision-making around resuscitation: proceed with care	14
Vaccine confidence, public understanding and probity: time for a shift in focus?	13
Challenges to biobanking in LMICs during COVID-19: time to reconceptualise research ethics guidance for pandemics and public health emergencies?	13
Spoonful of honey or a gallon of vinegar? A conditional COVID-19 vaccination policy for front-line healthcare workers	13
Epistemic injustice, children and mental illness	13
Voluntary COVID-19 vaccination of children: a social responsibility	13
Strengthening the impairment argument against abortion	13
Reproductive carrier screening: responding to the eugenics critique	13
How to reach trustworthy decisions for caesarean sections on maternal request: a call for beneficial power	13
Compulsory medical intervention versus external constraint in pandemic control	13
Children of COVID-19: pawns, pathfinders or partners?	13
Barriers to green inhaler prescribing: ethical issues in environmentally sustainable clinical practice	13
Translating Cultural Safety to the UK	13
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities	13
Ethical issues in computational pathology	12
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction	12
Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: critiquing the impact of disease public profile on policy and clinical decision-making	12
Should rare diseases get special treatment?	12
Digital bioethics: introducing new methods for the study of bioethical issues	12
Justice in COVID-19 vaccine prioritisation: rethinking the approach	12
Health justice in the Anthropocene: medical ethics and the Land Ethic	12
Gestaticide: killing the subject of the artificial womb	12
Ethical climate in contemporary paediatric intensive care	12
A focused protection vaccination strategy: why we should not target children with COVID-19 vaccination policies	12
High ideals: the misappropriation and reappropriation of the heroic label in the midst of a global pandemic	12
Patients, doctors and risk attitudes	12
Assisted gestative technologies	12
Spanish regulation of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide	11
Arguments on thin ice: on non-medical egg freezing and individualisation arguments	11
Social egg freezing and donation: waste not, want not	11
A discussion on controversies and ethical dilemmas in prostate cancer screening	11
What does solidarity do for bioethics?	11
Does NICE apply the rule of rescue in its approach to highly specialised technologies?	11
Genetic information, insurance and a pluralistic approach to justice	11
Pandemic prioritarianism	11
Morisprudence: a theoretical framework for studying the relationship linking moral case deliberation, organisational learning and quality improvement	11
‘Climate change mitigation is a hot topic, but not when it comes to hospitals’: a qualitative study on hospital stakeholders’ perception and sense of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions	11
Informed consent in pragmatic trials: results from a survey of trials published 2014–2019	11
Potential for epistemic injustice in evidence-based healthcare policy and guidance	11
Meaningful futility: requests for resuscitation against medical recommendation	11
Constructing authentic decisions: proxy decision making for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent	11
Autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor	11
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism	10

Control, trust and the sharing of health information: the limits of trust	10
What can data trusts for health research learn from participatory governance in biobanks?	10
Controlled human infection with SARS-CoV-2 to study COVID-19 vaccines and treatments: bioethics in Utopia	10
What money can’t buy: an argument against paying people to get vaccinated	10
Understanding Japan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Analysis of the institutional landscape and proliferation of proposals for global vaccine equity for COVID-19: too many cooks or too many recipes?	10
Where the ethical action is	10
Should age matter in COVID-19 triage? A deliberative study	10
Is there room for privacy in medical crowdfunding?	10
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust	10
Allocation of COVID-19 vaccination: when public prioritisation preferences differ from official regulations	10
Ethical decision making during a healthcare crisis: a resource allocation framework and tool	10
SARS-CoV-2 challenge studies: ethics and risk minimisation	10
Ethical challenges for women’s healthcare highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Three pitfalls of accountable healthcare rationing	9
Can China’s ‘standard of care’ for COVID-19 be replicated in Europe?	9
Public interest in health data research: laying out the conceptual groundwork	9
Genetic testing in the acute setting: a round table discussion	9
Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth	9
Payment of COVID-19 challenge trials: underpayment is a bigger worry than overpayment	9
Beyond regulatory approaches to ethics: making space for ethical preparedness in healthcare research	9
Framework for evaluation research on clinical ethical case interventions: the role of ethics consultants	9
Reimagining research ethics to include environmental sustainability: a principled approach, including a case study of data-driven health research	9
Ethics of resuscitation for extremely premature infants: a systematic review of argument-based literature	9
Near-term ethical challenges of digital twins	9
Expanded terminal sedation in end-of-life care	9
Two dilemmas for medical ethics in the treatment of gender dysphoria in youth	9
Expressivism at the beginning and end of life	9
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?	9
Healthcare professionals’ responsibility for informing relatives at risk of hereditary disease	9
Demonstrating ‘respect for persons’ in clinical research: findings from qualitative interviews with diverse genomics research participants	9
Fine-tuning the impairment argument	8
Fraud and retraction in perioperative medicine publications: what we learned and what can be implemented to prevent future recurrence	8
US adults’ preferences for race-based and place-based prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccines	8
The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: an exercise in international professional ethical self-regulation	8
Procedural safeguards cannot disentangle MAiD from organ donation decisions	8
What is common and what is different: recommendations from European scientific societies for triage in the first outbreak of COVID-19	8
Development of a structured process for fair allocation of critical care resources in the setting of insufficient capacity: a discussion paper	8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity	8
Prolife hypocrisy: why inconsistency arguments do not matter	8
Do we really know how many clinical trials are conducted ethically? Why research ethics committee review practices need to be strengthened and initial steps we could take to strengthen them	8
Doctors have an ethical obligation to ask patients about food insecurity: what is stopping us?	8
Payment in challenge studies from an economics perspective	8
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?	8
My body, not my choice: against legalised abortion	8
How can we decide a fair allocation of healthcare resources during a pandemic?	8
Should healthcare workers be prioritised during the COVID-19 pandemic? A view from Madrid and New York	8
Physician moral injury in the context of moral, ethical and legal codes	8
Ethical framework for adult social care in COVID-19	8
Allocating scarce life-saving resources: the proper role of age	8
Testimonial injustice: discounting women’s voices in health care priority setting	8
COVID-19 vaccination status should not be used in triage tie-breaking	8
Language matters: the ‘digital twin’ metaphor in health and medicine	8
Reflections of methodological and ethical challenges in conducting research during COVID-19 involving resettled refugee youth in Canada	8
Ethics of vaccine refusal	8
Parental obligation and compelled caesarean section: careful analogies and reliable reasoning about individual cases	8
Perspectives on digital twins and the (im)possibilities of control	8
Public health decisions in the COVID-19 pandemic require more than ‘follow the science’	8
Philosophical evaluation of the conceptualisation of trust in the NHS’ Code of Conduct for artificial intelligence-driven technology	7
The ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic: the ethics of emerging inequalities amongst healthcare workers	7
Conventional revolution: the ethical implications of the natural progress of neonatal intensive care to artificial wombs	7
Why NIPT should be publicly funded	7
Costa, cancer and coronavirus: contractualism as a guide to the ethics of lockdown	7
Risk-related standards of competence are a nonsense	7
To be, or not to be? The role of the unconscious in transgender transitioning: identity, autonomy and well-being	7
We might be afraid of black-box algorithms	7
Impact of ectogenesis on the medicalisation of pregnancy and childbirth	7
Need for patient-developed concepts of empowerment to rectify epistemic injustice and advance person-centred care	7
Endosex	7
Systems thinking in gender and medicine	7
Ethics of digital contact tracing wearables	7
More than consent for ethical open-label placebo research	7
‘There is a lot of good in knowing, but there is also a lot of downs’: public views on ethical considerations in population genomic screening	7
The inconsistency argument: why apparent pro-life inconsistency undermines opposition to induced abortion	7
Novel drug candidates targeting Alzheimer’s disease: ethical challenges with identifying the relevant patient population	7
Organisational failure: rethinking whistleblowing for tomorrow’s doctors	7
Ethics of the fiduciary relationship between patient and physician: the case of informed consent	7
High court should not restrict access to puberty blockers for minors	7
Youth should decide: the principle of subsidiarity in paediatric transgender healthcare	7
Pregnancy and superior moral status: a proposal for two thresholds of personhood	7
Euthanasia in persons with advanced dementia: a dignity-enhancing care approach	7
Should practice and policy be revised to allow for risk-proportional payment to human challenge study participants?	7
Initiating technology dependence to sustain a child’s life: a systematic review of reasons	7
Hospital chaplains as ethical consultants in making difficult medical decisions	7
Red herrings, circuit-breakers and ageism in the COVID-19 debate	7
Remote monitoring of medication adherence and patient and industry responsibilities in a learning health system	7
WHO guidance on ethics in outbreaks and the COVID-19 pandemic: a critical appraisal	6
Does the General Medical Council’s 2020 guidance on consent advance on its 2008 guidance?	6
Challenging misconceptions about clinical ethics support during COVID-19 and beyond: a legal update and future considerations	6
Assessment of patient decision-making capacity in the context of voluntary euthanasia for psychic suffering caused by psychiatric disorders: a qualitative study of approaches among Belgian physicians	6
Discrimination against the dying	6
Association of medical futility with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) code status in hospitalised patients	6
Value of choice	6
Surgery during COVID-19 crisis conditions: can we protect our ethical integrity against the odds?	6
Pandemic medical ethics	6