Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation25
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: 978019094364621
The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle15
Deckers, Jan. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law. Ghent, Belgium: Owl Press, 2023. 263 pp. $24.54(paperback). ISBN 978-9072201591.12
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”11
Toward a digitalized medicine: the Covid-19 pandemic as a disclosure of the importance of digital communication in the clinical world10
The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations10
Dignity as a social-psychological signal: operationalizing “people like us” in clinical institutions9
The mechanics of epistemic justice: a response to Toding et al. and their application of my epistemic approach to dignity9
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education8
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity8
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent? A response to Segers and De Proost8
Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach7
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous7
Johnson, James A., Douglas E. Anderson, and Caren C. Rossow. Health Systems thinking: a primer. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. 138 pp. ISBN 97812841671467
Reviewers, 20237
Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine7
McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: ethics, epistemology, and dialogue in contemporary medicine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9.780.197.572.078 (Hardback)7
The importance of enworlded selfhood for understanding chronic pain-related suffering6
Of rats and humans: rethinking physiological boundaries6
Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure6
Saving the debate: why psychological accounts of personhood ought not accept a univocal biological definition and criterion of death5
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 5
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rights5
Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantaged5
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality5
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal4
An inability-based account of psychiatric harm4
Biographical lives and organ conscription4
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost4
Cutter, Mary Ann G.: An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. New York: Routledge, 2024, x + 123 pp, $144 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-032-62099-24
Principlism language in contemporary Chinese bioethics: dissonance and discordance4
Correction to: Biographical lives and organ conscription4
Palmer, Chris: Brain energy: a revolutionary breakthrough in understanding mental health—and improving treatment for anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and more. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2022. 320 pp,4
Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs4
Whole body gestational donation3
Ethical thinking and practice in the healthcare professions3
Camouflaging in autism as a dual-normative construct: a philosophical critique3
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality3
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor3
Paul Scherz: The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare. University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, 2024, 194 pp., $40.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-02682-0905-63
Sex, demoralized3
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?3
S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-63
Rethinking the nature of medicine: limits of the inquiry thesis through the case of African traditional medicine3
Can bioethics bray? Non-human animals, biosemiotics, and a road to shared decision-making3
Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice3
A shared grammar: a counterfactual dialogue between disease and illness3
Subjectivity of pre-test probability value: controversies over the use of Bayes’ Theorem in medical diagnosis3
Benjamin’s translation as dialectical abduction: a novel epistemic framework for diagnostic hypothesizing3
Is pharmacogenetics being racialized? An investigation into the reinscription of racial beliefs in modern biomedicine3
Boggatz Thomas (ed). Quality of life and person-centered care for older people. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. 466 pp. $59.99 (paper). ISBN 978-3-030-29989-73
Reviewers, 20222
In ethics a model is important: interview with Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino2
Osteoporosis and risk of fracture: reference class problems are real2
The ethics of anti-love drugs qua precommitment strategy2
Phenomenology’s place in the philosophy of medicine2
An ethical defense of safer supply2
Deleuzo–Guattarian de-construction of the mind to re-evaluate undeath2
On the method of diagnosis2
Correction to: How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism2
Promoting deceased organ donation: should familist incentives be adopted in Islamic regions?2
Defining ‘Abortion’: a call for clarity2
The evolution of research participant as partner: the seminal contributions of Bob Veatch2
Pain-like isn’t pain. Reasserting affective attitudes as the boundary of moral life2
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 9,781,009,011,7472
Safeguarding the dead donor rule in the age of normothermic regional perfusion: organismic unity, irreversibility, and epistemic responsibility2
Chochinov, Harvey Max. Dignity in Care. The Human Side of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 184 pp. (print) ISBN 9780199380428, (online) ISBN 97801993804592
Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status2
Tacit social experimentation with digital technologies during the Covid-19 crisis2
Rasmussen, Lisa M., and Holm, Søren (Eds.): 50 Years of philosophy and medicine2
Ethical prioritization of critical care resources during COVID-19: perspectives from Italy and the United States2
Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism2
The limitations of narrative medicine2
A structured analysis of the concept of brain death2
Unmasking therapy-speak2
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better2
On instrumentality and second-order effects: revisiting anti-natalism and animal farming1
Intending to avoid the treatment burdens only: the doctrine of double effect and withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment1
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
Controversial arguments are controversial1
Correspondence on “defining ‘abortion’”: response to Sakr1
A letter to the article “Whole Body Gestational Donation” published by Anna Smajdor in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics1
A single definition and criterion of death1
The limits and possibilities of language: attending to our ‘ways with words’ in medicine and bioethics1
The patient experience of medically unexplained symptoms: an existentialist analysis1
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle1
Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents1
Reconsidering the impairment argument against abortion1
Robert Veatch’s early career in bioethics, contributions to the field, and career at Georgetown University1
Using curiosity to render the invisible, visible1
Orthorexia nervosa: nosographic category or not?1
Death as “benefit” in the context of non-voluntary euthanasia1
Why (at least some) moral vegans may have children: a response to Räsänen1
Clarifying the public misrepresentation of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance1
Do not harm: a minimal defense of conscientious objection in the medical profession1
Introduction: controversial arguments in bioethics1
Reviewers, 20251
A critique of whole body gestational donation1
Parents (of minors) are not surrogates: acknowledging (finally) the unique moral space of parents1
Misapplying autonomy: why patient wishes cannot settle treatment decisions1
Contributions of neo-Aristotelian phronesis to ethical medical practice1
Hermeneutics as impediment to AI in medicine1
An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions1
Making a dead woman pregnant? A critique of the thought experiment of Anna Smajdor1
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