Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation19
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: 978019094364618
The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations17
Robert Veatch’s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics17
The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle15
Toward a digitalized medicine: the Covid-19 pandemic as a disclosure of the importance of digital communication in the clinical world13
Deckers, Jan. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law. Ghent, Belgium: Owl Press, 2023. 263 pp. $24.54(paperback). ISBN 978-9072201591.9
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”8
Thomas Boggatz (ed.): Quality of life and person-centered care for older people7
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity7
The prospects of precision psychiatry7
Correction to: Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis7
Johnson, James A., Douglas E. Anderson, and Caren C. Rossow. Health Systems thinking: a primer. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. 138 pp. ISBN 97812841671465
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education5
Reviewers, 20235
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent? A response to Segers and De Proost5
Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach5
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous5
Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine5
Of rats and humans: rethinking physiological boundaries5
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rights4
Biographical lives and organ conscription4
Principlism language in contemporary Chinese bioethics: dissonance and discordance4
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 4
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality4
Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantaged4
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
Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure4
Saving the debate: why psychological accounts of personhood ought not accept a univocal biological definition and criterion of death4
Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs4
Correction to: Biographical lives and organ conscription4
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal3
S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-63
Is the replication crisis a base-rate fallacy?3
Subjectivity of pre-test probability value: controversies over the use of Bayes’ Theorem in medical diagnosis3
Correction to: Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease3
Sex, demoralized3
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective3
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost3
What is morally at stake when using algorithms to make medical diagnoses? Expanding the discussion beyond risks and harms3
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
Osteoporosis and risk of fracture: reference class problems are real2
Can bioethics bray? Non-human animals, biosemiotics, and a road to shared decision-making2
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality2
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?2
Rethinking the nature of medicine: limits of the inquiry thesis through the case of African traditional medicine2
Defending secular clinical ethics expertise from an Engelhardt-inspired sense of theoretical crisis2
Unmasking therapy-speak2
Reviewers, 20222
Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status2
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor2
Is pharmacogenetics being racialized? An investigation into the reinscription of racial beliefs in modern biomedicine2
Whole body gestational donation2
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
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
Pain-like isn’t pain. Reasserting affective attitudes as the boundary of moral life2
In ethics a model is important: interview with Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino2
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better2
Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice2
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
Correction to: How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism2
Deleuzo–Guattarian de-construction of the mind to re-evaluate undeath2
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