Journal of Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Expanding choice at the end of life	115
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy	86
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al	78
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’	61
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others	48
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation	44
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments and should be confined to clinical trials	43
Against the biological account of death	42
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study	41
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation	41
Manipulating embryogenesis and testing for potential: two real problems for the regulation of stem cell-based embryo models	41
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames	40
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics	37
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows	36
Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond	35
Missing voices: why youth perspectives are essential for Ubuntu bioethics in the context of HIV testing	32
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan	31
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral	30
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women	30
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue	27
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences	26
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications	26
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism	26
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy	24
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing children in utero does not imply the wrongness of abortion	24

The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees	24
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators	24
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being	24
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice	23
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson	23
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron	22
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity	22
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI	21
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation	21
Defending the impairment argument	21
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments	21
Lessons from li : a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics	20
Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model	19
Dead donor rule unfazed: a response to Masek	18
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?	17
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering	17
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen	17
Unexpecting: abortion, informed consent and transformative experiences	16
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients	16
Balancing public health and individual autonomy: a study of China’s vaccination policy	16
Phenomenology of pregnancy: moral consequences for abortion	15
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics	15
Why administration of lethal drugs should not be the role of the doctor	15
How can non-inferiority studies with mortality end points be ethically justified?	15
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings	15
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA	15
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare	14
‘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	14
‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund	14
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study	14
Digital twin ethics, physiological constraints and real-time feedback	14
The moral obligation to have genetically related children	14
Consent and consents in contemporary healthcare	14
Between intention and side effect: evaluation of consciousness diminution under the doctrine of double effect	13
Dead donor rule: death, dysfunction and bodily respect	13
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study	13
Guest editorial: Accommodating cultural differences in the International Conference of Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice guidelines	13
Looking back and looking forward	12
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?	12
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response	12
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties	12
Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?	12
The boycott of the Israeli Medical Association by the British Medical Association: a critical appraisal	12
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: responding to critics	12
Bipolar disorder and competence	12
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox	12
A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice	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
For the sake of multifacetedness. Why artificial intelligence patient preference prediction systems shouldn’t be for next of kin	12
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death	12

Reassessing the role of informed decision-making in cardiac xenotransplantation	11
No jab, no access? Is differential treatment based on vaccination (wrongfully) discriminatory?	11
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity	11
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor	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
How ‘non-invasive’ is non-invasive prenatal testing?	11
Expanding health justice to consider the environment: how can bioethics avoid reinforcing epistemic injustice?	11
Ethics of AI in medicine: how smarter systems lead to tougher judgments	11
Is the integrated/non-integrated distinction for embryo models really obsolete?	11
Using meconium to establish prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK: ethical, legal and social considerations	11
When to create embryos or organoids for research	11
Digital twins for trans people in healthcare: queer, phenomenological and bioethical considerations	11
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction	10
In vitro fertilisation mix-ups and contested parenthood	10
Fetal reduction, moral permissibility and the all or nothing problem	10
Javanese ethical concepts in health and healing	10
My body, still my choice: an objection to Hendricks on abortion	10
Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans	10
When biological ageing is desirable? A reply to García-Barranqueroet al	10
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes	10
Bearing witness and the ethical place of the medical student	10
Concepts in African philosophy to improve bioethics	10
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry	10
Global health and global governance of emerging biomedical technologies	10
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries	10
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity	10
PDMP causes more than just testimonial injustice	9
Epistemic justice in bioethics: interculturality and the possibility of reparations	9
Subhumans, human flourishing and abortion: a reply to Räsänen	9
Assessing the performance of ChatGPT in bioethics: a large language model’s moral compass in medicine	9
This little piggy can’t leave the open market	9
Defending deference: author’s response to commentaries	9
Assent: going beyond acknowledgement for fair inclusion	9
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids	9
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy	9
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	9
Autonomy-centred assisted death laws still avoid expressivism	9
Ethics briefing	9
Identity-relative paternalism fails to achieve its apparent goal	9
Incentivising civility in clinical environments	9
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?	9
Aligning goals, not perceptions: making space for illness perception in paediatric decision-making	9
Pregnancy loss in the context of AAPT: speculation over substance?	8
A qualitative study of true self judgments, epistemic access, and medical decision-making	8
Reconsidering double-effect sedation: clinical perspectives beyond intentions	8
Ethics briefings	8
Bringing context into ethical discussion: what, when and who?	8
Moral parenthood: not gestational	8
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins?	8
It is not about autonomy: realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI preference predictors in healthcare	8
Manufacturing safer medics	8
Expanded terminal sedation: too removed from real-world practice	8
Polygenic risk scores and embryonic screening: considerations for regulation	8
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders	8
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency	8
Broadening the debate: the future of JME feature articles	8
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
Give incivility a chance	7
How is clinical ethics reasoning done in practice? A review of the empirical literature	7
AI-powered psychotherapy as a model for improving disclosure and substitute judgment	7
What if all participants get the same treatment? An ethical perspective on single arm trials	7
Ethical problems with kindness in healthcare	7
Shibumi: acerbic beauty of the aged face	7
The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care	7
Igwebuike: an African concept for an inclusive medical ethics	7
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate	7
Beyond individual autonomy: relational dimensions of the right not to know	7
A Sleight of Hand	7
Trans embodiment out of line: a queer phenomenological reflection on digital twins in healthcare	7
Does normothermic regional perfusion harm donors after circulatory death?	7
Need for greater post-trial support for clinical trial participants assessing high-risk, irreversible treatments	7
From AI SIM to AI twinning: a spectrum of digital representations of persons	7
Beyond instrumental rationality: a thicker account of intention in double-effect sedation	7
Problems with adversarial cooperation: identity, representation and bias	6
Charting the ethical landscape of generative AI-augmented clinical documentation	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
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller	6

Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau	6
Reversibility and indefinite treatment: implications for consent and widening inequalities – a response to Ryan and Savulescu	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
Informed decision-making in labour: action required	6
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics	6
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust	6
Is ageing still undesirable? A reply to Räsänen	6
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour	6
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent	6
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency	6
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests	6
Embryo models and the regulatory void: ethical imperatives before legal action	6
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction	6
Something old, something new? The Journal of Medical Ethics turns 50	6
Pretending to care	6
Loneliness at the age of COVID-19	6
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism	6
What makes a medical intervention invasive?	6
Keep calm and think twice: methodological issues with the recommendations by Giordano (2025)	6
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power	6
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments	6
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy	6
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?	5
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey	5
Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making	5
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?	5
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology	5
Misalignments of values and preferences: Finding an ideal elder care arrangement	5
Bioethics and the value of disagreement	5
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future	5
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means	5
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’	5
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?	5
Keep calm but do not carry on: ethical issues with the recommendations made by the Cass Review—Giordano response to the commentaries	5
Ethics briefing	5
Review of research ethics guidelines on payment of healthy volunteers	5
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research	5
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia	5
No consent for brain death testing	5
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing	5
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand	5
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making	5
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion	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
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action	5
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins	5
Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon	5
When is suicide a public health issue?	5
On the risks of depersonalizing consent and the safe implementation of LLMs in medical decision-making	5
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability	5
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics	5
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’	5
Ethics briefing	5
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal	5
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation	5
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition	5
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications	5
Pragmatic defence of the register system: strengthening Clarke’s consequentialist case for managing conscientious objection	5
Transformative experience and the limits of legal consent: a response to Räsänen	4
Diversity, polarisation and reason: how we can make progress in bioethics	4
Towards organisational quality in ethics through patternsandprocess	4
Research involving the recently deceased: ethics questions that must be answered	4
Towards an environmentally sensitive healthcare ethics: ten tasks and one model	4
Journal of Medical Ethics turns 50: a mixed-methods study about the future of medical ethics	4
Emotions and affects: the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of understanding risk attitudes in medical decision-making	4
Civility and scientific excellence: two dimensions of medical professionalism	4
Are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?	4
Content analysis, astrology and my 20 years as JME editor	4
Where is knowledge from the global South? An account of epistemic justice for a global bioethics	4
Authors meet critics: What is a person? Untapped insights from Africa	4
The Supreme Court’s decision inMcCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board: Does it condone healthcare injustice?	4
Why pregnancy is not a disease: a critique from the perspective of biological trade-offs	4
Ethically defensible executions? A reply to Daniel Rodger and coauthors	4
Panem, corticoids and circenses: the ethical fallout of Enhanced Games	4
The promise of xenotransplantation: a challenge	4
Ethics round table: choice and autonomy in obstetrics	4
Can the courts be viewed as an appropriate vehicle to settle clinical unease?	4
‘Empathy counterbalancing’ to mitigate the ‘identified victim effect’? Ethical reflections on cognitive debiasing strategies to increase support for healthcare priority setting	4
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive	4
Conscientious commitment, professional obligations and abortion provision after the reversal ofRoe v Wade	4
Ubuntu as a complementary perspective for addressing epistemic (in)justice in medical machine learning	4
CESS process and outcome: expanding the theoretical understanding of CESS and its impact on QI	4
Time-sensitive hybrid model for parent allocation in IVF embryo mix-ups	4
The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies	4
How should institutions help clinicians to practise greener anaesthesia: first-order and second-order responsibilities to practice sustainably	4
Critical dialogue method of ethics consultation: making clinical ethics facilitation visible and accessible	4
Professional virtue of civility: responding to commentaries	4
Lessons learned from the Last Gift study: ethical and practical challenges faced while conducting HIV cure-related research at the end of life	4
Seva (सेवा): selfless service	4
Ethics of college vaccine mandates, using reasonable comparisons	4
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model	4
Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia	4
Ethical preparedness and developments in genomic healthcare	4
Environmental sustainability and the paradox of prevention	4