Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Phenomenology’s place in the philosophy of medicine24
What is morally at stake when using algorithms to make medical diagnoses? Expanding the discussion beyond risks and harms14
The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations13
A troubling foundational inconsistency: autonomy and collective agency in critical care decision-making12
Cross-cultural bioethics: lessons from the Sub-Saharan African philosophy of ubuntu11
Toward a digitalized medicine: the Covid-19 pandemic as a disclosure of the importance of digital communication in the clinical world8
S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-68
Sex, demoralized8
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”7
Johnson, L. Syd M. The ethics of uncertainty: entangled ethical and epistemic risks in disorders of consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55 (hardcover). ISBN: 97801909436465
The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle5
Is the replication crisis a base-rate fallacy?4
The evolution of research participant as partner: the seminal contributions of Bob Veatch4
Robert Veatch’s transplantation ethics: obtaining and allocating organs from deceased persons4
Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdor4
Weak transhumanism: moderate enhancement as a non-radical path to radical enhancement4
Robert Veatch’s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics4
The prospects of precision psychiatry3
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation3
Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism3
Experimental philosophical bioethics and normative inference3
Deckers, Jan. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law. Ghent, Belgium: Owl Press, 2023. 263 pp. $24.54(paperback). ISBN 978-9072201591.3
Antinatalism and the vegan’s dilemma3
Making a dead woman pregnant? A critique of the thought experiment of Anna Smajdor3
Correction to: Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease3
Correction: On instrumentality and second-order effects: revisiting anti-natalism and animal farming3
Kathleen Benton and Renzo Pegoraro (ed.): Finding dignity at the end of life: A spiritual reflection on palliative care2
Whole body gestational donation2
Correction to: Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis2
Reviewers, 20232
Kairos in diagnostics2
Relational autonomy and the clinical relationship in dementia care2
An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions2
Is whole-body gestational donation without explicit consent a valid alternative to surrogate motherhood? An ethical analysis through analogy reasoning and principlist approach2
The patient experience of medically unexplained symptoms: an existentialist analysis2
Contributions of neo-Aristotelian phronesis to ethical medical practice2
Philosophy of medicine in 20212
Correction to: Pain priors, polyeidism, and predictive power: a preliminary investigation into individual differences in ordinary thought about pain2
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity2
The religious character of secular arguments supporting euthanasia and what it implies for conscientious practice in medicine2
Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach2
Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine2
Why bother the public? A critique of Leslie Cannold’s empirical research on ectogenesis2
Correction: Flourishing at the end of life2
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education2
Thomas Boggatz (ed.): Quality of life and person-centered care for older people2
Facing a pandemic outbreak: issues of global health, ethics, and technology2
Age-based restrictions on reproductive care: discerning the arbitrary from the necessary1
The philosopher as partner: an introduction to the scholarship of Robert M. Veatch1
Implicit understandings and trust in the doctor-patient relationship: a philosophy of language analysis of pre-operative evaluations1
Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice1
A defense of surgical procedures regulation1
Values, decision-making and empirical bioethics: a conceptual model for empirically identifying and analyzing value judgements1
The conceptual injustice of the brain death standard1
Ten have, Henk A.M.J. Wounded planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help. John Hopkins University Press. 2019. 376 pp. Hard cover: ISBN: 978-1-4214-2745-4.1
The inviolateness of life and equal protection: a defense of the dead-donor rule1
Johnson, James A., Douglas E. Anderson, and Caren C. Rossow. Health Systems thinking: a primer. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. 138 pp. ISBN 97812841671461
Diagnosing death: the “fuzzy area” between life and decomposition1
Epistemic injustice in the therapeutic relationship in psychiatry1
Towards a systematic evaluation of moral bioenhancement1
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?1
Spiritual care in the dementia ward during a pandemic1
Using curiosity to render the invisible, visible1
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous1
Telling it like it was: dignity therapy and moral reckoning in palliative care1
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality1
Robert Veatch’s early career in bioethics, contributions to the field, and career at Georgetown University1
The criticism of medicine at the end of its “golden age”1
Probability and informed consent1
A critique of whole body gestational donation1
Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease1
Moyse, Ashley. Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World: Wayfaring through Despair. Anthem Press, 2022. pp. 162. $125.00. (hardcover). ISBN: 13:9781785278617. (Ebook): 10:1:17852786240
The ethical inadequacy of uninformed surrogate consent: advancing respect for persons in clinical research0
Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status0
DeGrazia, David, and Millum, Joseph. A theory of bioethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 316 pp. $99.99 (cloth) ISBN 978,316,515,839, $24.99 (paper) SBN 9,781,009,011,7470
The principle of procreative beneficence and its implications for genetic engineering0
The indispensability of race in medicine0
Maureen L. Condic: Untangling twinning: what science tells us about the nature of human embryos0
Reaffirming the irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better: A reply to García-Barranquero and Llorca Albareda0
Suffering and the dilemmas of pediatric care: a response to Tyler Tate0
Defending secular clinical ethics expertise from an Engelhardt-inspired sense of theoretical crisis0
Procreative responsibilities and the parental obligation objection0
How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism0
Pain priors, polyeidism, and predictive power: a preliminary investigation into individual differences in ordinary thought about pain0
Catholic religious agency during the Covid-19 emergency: the issue of vaccines0
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal0
On instrumentality and second-order effects: revisiting anti-natalism and animal farming0
Controversial views and moral realism0
An ageless body does not imply transhumanism: A reply to Levin0
Snead, O. Carter. What it means to be human: the case for the body in public bioethics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 321 pp. $41.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). ISBN 0-67-49877-210
Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantaged0
Osteoporosis and risk of fracture: reference class problems are real0
Saving unwanted children: a proposal for a National Rearing Institute0
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor0
Wakefield’s harmful dysfunction analysis of disorder and the problem of defining harm to nonsentient organisms0
Subjectivity of pre-test probability value: controversies over the use of Bayes’ Theorem in medical diagnosis0
Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure0
Global health, planetary health, One Health: conceptual and ethical challenges and concerns0
Introducing philosophy of medicine: three new books0
Why good work in philosophical bioethics often looks strange0
‘Experimental pregnancy’ revisited0
Correction to: Biographical lives and organ conscription0
To harvest, procure, or receive? Organ transplantation metaphors and the technological imaginary0
Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents0
Keenan, James F., SJ: A history of Catholic theological ethics. New York: Paulist Press, 2022, 434 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978–0-8091–5544-60
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rights0
A festschrift in memory of Robert M. Veatch0
Patient confidentiality, the duty to protect, and psychotherapeutic care: perspectives from the philosophy of ubuntu0
Correction: Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism0
Jotterand, F., M. Ienca, B. Elger, & T. Wangmo. Eds. Intelligent assistive technologies for dementia: clinical, ethical, social, and regulatory implications. Oxford University Press. 2019. 320 pp.0
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective0
Biographical lives and organ conscription0
Chochinov, Harvey Max. Dignity in Care. The Human Side of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 184 pp. (print) ISBN 9780199380428, (online) ISBN 97801993804590
In ethics a model is important: interview with Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino0
Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis0
Baruch Brody and the principle of justifiable homicide0
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost0
Flourishing at the end of life0
Bishop, Jeffrey P., M. Therese Lysaught, and Andrew A. Michel. Biopolitics after Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 288pp. $115.00 (cloth); $39.95 0
Ethical prioritization of critical care resources during COVID-19: perspectives from Italy and the United States0
Reviewers, 20220
Why (at least some) moral vegans may have children: a response to Räsänen0
Misapplying autonomy: why patient wishes cannot settle treatment decisions0
Controversial arguments are controversial0
Should vegans have children? Examining the links between animal ethics and antinatalism0
The self-fulfilling prophecy in medicine0
Rosamond Rhodes: The trusted doctor: medical ethics and professionalism0
Nathan Carlin: Pastoral aesthetics: a theological perspective on principlist bioethics0
Towards a dispositionalist (and unifying) account of addiction0
Ilora Finlay and Robert Preston: Death by appointment: a rational guide to the assisted dying debate0
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better0
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality0
Boggatz Thomas (ed). Quality of life and person-centered care for older people. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. 466 pp. $59.99 (paper). ISBN 978-3-030-29989-70
Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs0
Introduction: controversial arguments in bioethics0
Correction to: How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism0
Anent the theoretical justification of a sex doula program0
Refund: a defense of luck egalitarian policy in healthcare0
den Hartogh, Govert. What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death. New York/London: Routledge, 2023. 402 pp. USD $ 128.00 (hardcover); USD $ 43.99 (paper); USD $ 43.99 (Ebook). ISBN 90
A plea for an experimental philosophy of medicine0
Tacit social experimentation with digital technologies during the Covid-19 crisis0
Childbearing, abortion and regret: a response to Kate Greasley0
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle0
Epicureanism and euthanasia0
A letter to the article “Whole Body Gestational Donation” published by Anna Smajdor in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics0
James Rachels and the morality of euthanasia0
Defending a choice-based system for the determination of death0
Erwin B. Montgomery: Medical reasoning: the nature and use of medical knowledge0
Should vegans have children? A response to Räsänen0
Reconsidering the utilitarian link between veganism and antinatalism0
Death as “benefit” in the context of non-voluntary euthanasia0
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