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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation28
Deckers, Jan. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law. Ghent, Belgium: Owl Press, 2023. 263 pp. $24.54(paperback). ISBN 978-9072201591.17
Robert Veatch’s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics13
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”13
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: 978019094364611
The prospects of precision psychiatry11
The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations10
The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle9
Toward a digitalized medicine: the Covid-19 pandemic as a disclosure of the importance of digital communication in the clinical world8
Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach7
Thomas Boggatz (ed.): Quality of life and person-centered care for older people7
Correction to: Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis6
Why bother the public? A critique of Leslie Cannold’s empirical research on ectogenesis6
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education5
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent? A response to Segers and De Proost4
Reviewers, 20234
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality4
Johnson, James A., Douglas E. Anderson, and Caren C. Rossow. Health Systems thinking: a primer. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. 138 pp. ISBN 97812841671464
Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine4
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rights4
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity4
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous4
Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure4
Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease4
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: 978-1-032-62099-23
Subjectivity of pre-test probability value: controversies over the use of Bayes’ Theorem in medical diagnosis3
A plea for an experimental philosophy of medicine3
Principlism language in contemporary Chinese bioethics: dissonance and discordance3
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost3
Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs3
Pain priors, polyeidism, and predictive power: a preliminary investigation into individual differences in ordinary thought about pain3
Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantaged3
Correction to: Biographical lives and organ conscription3
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal3
Biographical lives and organ conscription3
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 3
S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-62
Sex, demoralized2
Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice2
Defending secular clinical ethics expertise from an Engelhardt-inspired sense of theoretical crisis2
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor2
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?2
Whole body gestational donation2
What is morally at stake when using algorithms to make medical diagnoses? Expanding the discussion beyond risks and harms2
Correction to: Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease2
Benjamin’s translation as dialectical abduction: a novel epistemic framework for diagnostic hypothesizing2
Boggatz Thomas (ed). Quality of life and person-centered care for older people. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. 466 pp. $59.99 (paper). ISBN 978-3-030-29989-72
Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status2
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective2
Is the replication crisis a base-rate fallacy?2
Experimental philosophical bioethics and normative inference2
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality2
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: 978-02682-0905-62
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better2
A defense of surgical procedures regulation1
The limitations of narrative medicine1
Robert Veatch’s early career in bioethics, contributions to the field, and career at Georgetown University1
Osteoporosis and risk of fracture: reference class problems are real1
Reviewers, 20221
Ethical prioritization of critical care resources during COVID-19: perspectives from Italy and the United States1
Defining ‘Abortion’: a call for clarity1
A critique of whole body gestational donation1
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
Philosophy of medicine in 20211
Tacit social experimentation with digital technologies during the Covid-19 crisis1
Chochinov, Harvey Max. Dignity in Care. The Human Side of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 184 pp. (print) ISBN 9780199380428, (online) ISBN 97801993804591
Can bioethics bray? Non-human animals, biosemiotics, and a road to shared decision-making1
In ethics a model is important: interview with Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino1
Towards a systematic evaluation of moral bioenhancement1
Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism1
The evolution of research participant as partner: the seminal contributions of Bob Veatch1
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 9,781,009,011,7471
Correction to: How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism1
Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis1
Phenomenology’s place in the philosophy of medicine1
Maureen L. Condic: Untangling twinning: what science tells us about the nature of human embryos0
Childbearing, abortion and regret: a response to Kate Greasley0
The criticism of medicine at the end of its “golden age”0
Epicureanism and euthanasia0
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle0
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
Reviewers, 20240
The religious character of secular arguments supporting euthanasia and what it implies for conscientious practice in medicine0
‘Experimental pregnancy’ revisited0
Correction: Flourishing at the end of life0
The conceptual injustice of the brain death standard0
Moral bricolage and the emerging tradition of secular bioethics0
Correction to: Pain priors, polyeidism, and predictive power: a preliminary investigation into individual differences in ordinary thought about pain0
Towards a dispositionalist (and unifying) account of addiction0
Why good work in philosophical bioethics often looks strange0
Using curiosity to render the invisible, visible0
Correction: Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism0
Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents0
Anent the theoretical justification of a sex doula program0
Controversial arguments are controversial0
An ageless body does not imply transhumanism: A reply to Levin0
Death as “benefit” in the context of non-voluntary euthanasia0
Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdor0
Values, decision-making and empirical bioethics: a conceptual model for empirically identifying and analyzing value judgements0
Relational autonomy and the clinical relationship in dementia care0
The principle of procreative beneficence and its implications for genetic engineering0
The limits and possibilities of language: attending to our ‘ways with words’ in medicine and bioethics0
The inviolateness of life and equal protection: a defense of the dead-donor rule0
‘I am in pain’: neuroethics, philosophy of language, and the representation of pain0
Contributions of neo-Aristotelian phronesis to ethical medical practice0
Hermeneutics as impediment to AI in medicine0
A letter to the article “Whole Body Gestational Donation” published by Anna Smajdor in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics0
The self-fulfilling prophecy in medicine0
Kathleen Benton and Renzo Pegoraro (ed.): Finding dignity at the end of life: A spiritual reflection on palliative care0
Should vegans have children? Examining the links between animal ethics and antinatalism0
Antinatalism and the vegan’s dilemma0
Implicit understandings and trust in the doctor-patient relationship: a philosophy of language analysis of pre-operative evaluations0
Catholic religious agency during the Covid-19 emergency: the issue of vaccines0
Bioethics as a language game: probing the quality of moral guidance in principlism0
Procreative responsibilities and the parental obligation objection0
Global health, planetary health, One Health: conceptual and ethical challenges and concerns0
Why (at least some) moral vegans may have children: a response to Räsänen0
Correction: On instrumentality and second-order effects: revisiting anti-natalism and animal farming0
Baruch Brody and the principle of justifiable homicide0
Intending to avoid the treatment burdens only: the doctrine of double effect and withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment0
The ethical inadequacy of uninformed surrogate consent: advancing respect for persons in clinical research0
Introduction: controversial arguments in bioethics0
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
Misapplying autonomy: why patient wishes cannot settle treatment decisions0
Facing a pandemic outbreak: issues of global health, ethics, and technology0
Kairos in diagnostics0
Ilora Finlay and Robert Preston: Death by appointment: a rational guide to the assisted dying debate0
Making a dead woman pregnant? A critique of the thought experiment of Anna Smajdor0
Should vegans have children? A response to Räsänen0
Reaffirming the irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better: A reply to García-Barranquero and Llorca Albareda0
The patient experience of medically unexplained symptoms: an existentialist analysis0
Introducing philosophy of medicine: three new books0
How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism0
The philosopher as partner: an introduction to the scholarship of Robert M. Veatch0
Reconsidering the utilitarian link between veganism and antinatalism0
Is whole-body gestational donation without explicit consent a valid alternative to surrogate motherhood? An ethical analysis through analogy reasoning and principlist approach0
Weak transhumanism: moderate enhancement as a non-radical path to radical enhancement0
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 troubling foundational inconsistency: autonomy and collective agency in critical care decision-making0
James Rachels and the morality of euthanasia0
The role of the enrolling clinician in emergency research conducted under an exception from informed consent0
Probability and informed consent0
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
Saving unwanted children: a proposal for a National Rearing Institute0
To harvest, procure, or receive? Organ transplantation metaphors and the technological imaginary0
Wakefield’s harmful dysfunction analysis of disorder and the problem of defining harm to nonsentient organisms0
Epistemic injustice in the therapeutic relationship in psychiatry0
Flourishing at the end of life0
Defending a choice-based system for the determination of death0
Rosamond Rhodes: The trusted doctor: medical ethics and professionalism0
Controversial views and moral realism0
On instrumentality and second-order effects: revisiting anti-natalism and animal farming0
Refund: a defense of luck egalitarian policy in healthcare0
Age-based restrictions on reproductive care: discerning the arbitrary from the necessary0
Suffering and the dilemmas of pediatric care: a response to Tyler Tate0
The indispensability of race in medicine0
Take another five. A response to Adams0
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
Robert Veatch’s transplantation ethics: obtaining and allocating organs from deceased persons0
Spiritual care in the dementia ward during a pandemic0
A festschrift in memory of Robert M. Veatch0
An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions0
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