American Journal of Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Prenatal Testing: Responsibility and Reality79
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology64
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?56
The Role of Philosophers in Bioethics54
Two Models of Bioethics53
I’m Not Welcome There: Why I Am Not Attending IAB 202441
To Swab or Not to Swab: Waiver of Consent to Collect Perianal Specimens from Incapacitated Patients With Severe Burn Injury40
Challenges of Bioethics Frameworks for Non-Democratic Contexts40
Think Like a Journalist and Act as a Risk and Crisis Communicator in the Context of Public Health Emergencies39
Computational Ethics Tools to Audit Corporate Self-Governance in Data Processing37
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action35
No Elder Left Behind: The Role of Environmental Justice in Geriatrics and Palliative Care33
Moving to Equity in the All of Us Research Program33
Fuzzy Logic: How the Practicalities of State Involvement Shape the Most Ethically Supportable Way Forward32
Unilateral Withdrawal, Technological Creep, and the Role of Proportionality in ECMO Policy32
Challenges for Environmental Justice Under Bioethical Principlism32
Solidarity: A Missing Component of Research Ethics31
No Justification to Exclude State Ward from Pediatric Transplant Research31
Current Ethical Considerations of Human Whole Eye Transplantation is Short-Sighted29
Safety in Numbers and Other Questions from Pierson et al.’s Bioethics Survey28
Comparing the Results of Two Surveys on the Views of Bioethicists28
Does It Matter That Surveyed Bioethicists Are Not Similar to Patients in Clinical Ethics Consultations28
What and For Whom Is Bioethics?26
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems26
A Clarified Interpretation of Permanence Justifies Death Determination in NRP Protocols25
“Time Is Brain:” DCDD-NRP Invalidates the Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death25
Beyond Trade-Offs: Autonomy, Effectiveness, Fairness, and Normativity in Risk and Crisis Communication24
Ableist Bias Persists Among Bioethicists: Interpreting the Views in Bioethics Survey’s “Disability” Findings23
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death: Conceptual Challenges23
Reasons in the Loop: The Role of Large Language Models in Medical Co-Reasoning23
NRP Possibly Violates “Do No Harm” and Is Not Worth Risking the Perception That It Does22
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse22
Researchers Experience Moral Distress Too!22
What Are Patients Doing in the Loop? Patients as Fellow-Workers in the Everyday Use of Medical AI22
Pathways to Drug Liberalization: Racial Justice, Public Health, and Human Rights21
Why Have Uniform Informed Consent Documents When the Research Volunteers Are So Diverse?21
Focusing on Neutrality When Resolving Religious Conflicts in Pediatric Medical Care21
Controversial Analysis of “Deception” Prevents Adequate Moral Analysis21
Time for Federal Standards on Death Determination: The National Determination of Death Act21
Expanding Our Thoughts about Autonomy in Relation to Whether We Should Offer Genetic Testing for Nonmedical Traits20
A Hub and Spoke Model for Improving Access and Standardizing Ethics Consultations Across a Large Healthcare System20
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits20
Role of Vulnerability and Control in Prenatal Testing Ethical Decision-Making20
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?20
Improving Community Engagement and Social Justice in Public Health Policymaking during the COVID Pandemics: Insights from Participatory Action-Research in Western Switzerland19
From Theory to Practice: The Importance of Operationalizing and Measuring Ethical Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy19
Agent-Regret in Healthcare19
The Authenticity Requirement: Why Using Digital Twins for Achieving Person-Span Extension Goods Can Be Self-Defeating18
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare18
Consensus and Solidarity: Protecting All People from Group Harms18
Equity or Utility? Considering Social Factors in Pediatric Transplant18
Letter to the Editor18
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: How Should Family Support Be Considered in Pediatric Transplant Evaluations?18
Whether Whole Eye Transplant is a Benefit or Harm Depends on More Than the Observer17
Putting the Agency in Agent-Regret17
Virtue Ethics and the Spheres of Morality Framework17
Reopening the ‘Window to the Soul’?: The Ethics of Eye Transplantation Now and in the Future17
Capacity, Rationality, and the Promotion of Autonomy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Refusals of Care After Opioid Poisoning17
Supportive Touch in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy17
Inclusion by Invitation Only? Public Engagement beyond Deliberation in the Governance of Innovative Biotechnology16
We Need Role Fidelity and Integrity to Avoid Moral Compartmentalization, Not Sphere or Role Moralities16
In Defense of Expert Knowledge in Bioethical Discussions on Human Genome Editing15
How to Use AI Ethically for Ethical Decision-Making15
What Is a Physician? Navigating Incommensurable Spheres of Role Morality15
Regulatory Angels and Technology Demons? Making Sense of Evolving Realities in Health Data Privacy for the Digital Age14
Please, Don’t Fly Me to the Moon13
The AI Needed for Ethical Decision Making Does Not Exist13
Should the Clinical Ethicist Document Her Complicity in Intentional Deception?13
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question12
Special Considerations When Research is Embedded within Community Health Centers12
Hare’s Archangel, Human Fallibility, and Utilitarian Justification(?) of Deception11
Putting the Asymmetry Debate in Its Place11
The Grounds of the Disclosure Requirement for Informed Consent11
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails10
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Do Clinicians Have a Duty to Participate in Pragmatic Clinical Trials?”10
Design Bioethics and Digital Research Creep10
The Social Value Misconception in Clinical Research10
Machines Like Me: 4 Corollaries for Responsible Use of AI in the Bioethics Classroom10
Considering “Respect for Sovereignty” Beyond the Belmont Report and the Common Rule: Ethical and Legal Implications for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples10
Ethical Restraint Use With Incapable Absconding Patients: Goals, Proportionality, and Surrogates10
How Can Large Language Models Support the Acquisition of Ethical Competencies in Healthcare?10
Looking Forward: A Response to Commentaries on “Race, Power and COVID-19: A Call for Advocacy within Bioethics”10
Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making10
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge9
What Is the Ethical Goal of Empowering Parents in Emergent Decision-making about Their Premature Newborn?9
“Racialized Disablement” as a Key Heuristic for Addressing Racism in Bioethics8
A Call for Evidence-Based Clinical Ethics Consultation8
A Value-Oriented Framework for Precision Medicine8
When Parents Don’t Want Their Teenager to be Vaccinated against COVID-19, Who Calls the Shots?8
Being in Good Community: Engagement in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty8
The ASBH’s Obligation to Create Cost-Free Basic HEC Training8
Metaphysics, Reason, and Religion in Secular Clinical Ethics7
The Underdeveloped “Gift”: Ethics in Implementing Precision Medicine Research7
Not Dead, but Close Enough? You Cannot Have Your Cake and Eat It Too in Satisfying the DDR in cDCD7
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death7
Trojan Horses, Clinical Utility, and Parfitian Puzzles7
Large Language Models and Inclusivity in Bioethics Scholarship7
ECMO: What Would a Deliberative Public Judge?7
Ethical Issues in Using Behavior Contracts to Manage the “Difficult” Patient and Family6
Beyond Words: Reconsidering the Moral Distinction of Action in Consent for Assisted Dying6
What’s Wrong with Medicalization?6
Ending the Debate Whether State-Mandated Pregnancies are Matters of Bioethics Concern6
Aid in Dying in Canada and the United States: Are U.S. States Too Cautious?6
Emotion as a Signpost in Complicated Pediatric Decision-Making6
Ethical Aspects of Machine Listening in Healthcare6
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings6
The Ethical Data Practices Framework and Its Implications for Data Privacy Relations between the United States and the European Union6
When Parents Prefer to Defer: Is ‘Deferral’ Always Problematic in Pediatric Decision-Making?6
Beyond Abortion Clinics: How Overturning Roe Will Obstruct Life-Saving Research and Fetal Therapy6
Donor Rules—Dead and Living6
Personalizing Care and Communication at the Limits of Technology6
Aid in Dying Unaided?6
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege6
Executive, Legislative, Judiciary, & Clinic: How the Fall of Roe Will Entrench Clinicians as Agents of the State and Create Ethical Conflicts throughout Medical Practice6
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”6
Pragmatic Aspects of Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death and Ethical Considerations for Alternative Approaches6
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents5
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients5
Avoiding Exceptionalism and Silver Bullets: Lessons from Public Health Ethics and Alzheimer’s Disease5
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria5
Allocation of Treatment Slots in Elective Mental Health Care—Are Waiting Lists the Ethically Most Appropriate Option?5
Racial Justice and Economic Efficiency Both Require Ending the War on Drugs5
Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and the United States: Lessons Learned from the Case of Archie Battersbee and a Suggestion for Mid-Level Principles to Enha5
Personhood Is Still Useful, but Not for Everything5
Limitations on the Capability of the FDA to Advise5
The Importance of Rights to the Argument for the Decriminalization of Drugs5
Social and Epistemic Justice: Are We Really Including Africa in the Bioethics Discourse?5
Determinations of Competence Ought Not to Be Primarily Grounded in Paternalistic Justifications regarding Welfare5
Political Liberalism and Public Health5
Evaluating Fairness in Sports: Beyond Testosterone Suppression5
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation5
Review of Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby, Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics5
Re-Framing Moral Distress to Benefit Both Patient and Caregiver5
Response to Open Peer Commentaries Re: Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and USA5
Ethical Issues in Death by Neurologic Criteria Require Critical Scrutiny: Lack of Engagement with Sound Arguments to Save Medical Dogma5
What Is Considered “Fair” Depends on the Purposes of Elite Sports5
Automating Justice: An Ethical Responsibility of Computational Bioethics5
The Nature of Harm: A Wine-Dark Sea5
Who’s Experience, Which Liability?5
Bans, Taxes or Product Placement? Applying the Liberal Perfectionist Proviso to Public Health Food Policy5
The Place of Bioethics in Philosophy: Toward a Mutually Constructive Integration5
The Concept and Conceptions of Personhood: The Fallacy of Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby’s Argument5
Putting a Pronouncement about Personhood into Perspective5
How Medical Technologies Materialize Oppression5
E-Cigarettes, the FDA’s Strategic Orientation, and Lessons from the Opioid Crisis5
Algorithms for Ethical Decision-Making in the Clinic: A Proof of Concept4
Travel to Other States for Abortion after Dobbs4
Health and Data Equity in Public Health Emergency Risk and Crisis Communication (PHERCC)4
In Defense of a More Antinatalist Bioethics4
The Two Front War on Reproductive Rights—When the Right to Abortion is Banned, Can the Right to Refuse Obstetrical Interventions Be Far behind?4
On the Permissibility of Elective Ectogestation4
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine4
Establishing and Defining an Approach to Climate Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics4
Challenging the Centrality of Anti-Racism in Bioethics4
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease4
The Need for “Big Bioethics” Research4
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?4
Why Exceptional Public Investment in the Development of Vaccines Is Justified for COVID-19, But Not for Other Unmet Medical Needs4
Patient Ineligibility as a Barrier to Participation in Clinical Trials4
Potential Iatrogenic Effects of Returning Individual Research Results from Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry4
E-Cigarettes and the Multiple Responsibilities of the FDA4
Ethics, Engagement, and Escalating Interventions4
Reciprocity’s Baggage4
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: How Bioethics Can Learn from Organized Medicine4
Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine: The Post-Authorization Phase4
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics4
Adaptive Machine Learning as Research: Does the Cure Fit the Disease?4
War, Bioethics, and Public Health4
Toward a Broader Conception of Equity in Artificial Womb Technology4
Undoing Funding Injustices for Bioethics Research on Racial Justice4
Ambivalence: The Patient’s Perspective Counts4
Gene Editing vs. Genetic Selection4
What Bioethics Owes Reproductive Justice4
“Precision Medicine” Is Genomic Medicine4
Dobbs and Rights during Ongoing Pregnancy: Connecting the Dots4
The Hidden Costs of ChatGPT: A Call for Greater Transparency4
What Reasons Are Really at Play in Reproduction?4
Bolder Bioethics: Demanding a Gold Standard in REDI Recommendations4
Substituted Judgment and The Paradigm Case Mistake4
Machine Learning-Generated Clinical Data as Collateral Research: A Global Neuroethical Analysis4
Against Multiplying Clinical Ethics Standards without Necessity: The Case for Parsimony in Evaluating Decision-making Capacity4
Discerning the Nature of MAMLS: Research, Quality Improvement, or Both?4
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?4
Reconfiguring Health: The Importance of Recognizing Embodied Subjectivity and Social Dynamics in Health4
Georgia on My Mind: Daughters, Dementia and Discharge4
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind4
Addressing a Missing Link in Emergency Preparedness: New Insights on the Ethics of Care in Contingency Conditions from the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative4
The Artificial Third: Utilizing ChatGPT in Mental Health4
Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic4
When “Next of Kin” Isn’t “Who Knows Best”: the Ethics of Choosing a Surrogate Decision Maker3
The Perils of AI over-Exceptionalism in Healthcare3
Epistemic Rights and Responsibilities of Digital Simulacra for Biomedicine3
Moral Distress in Military Medicine: Toward Analysis of, and Approach to Measurement, Prevention and Care3
Good Ethics Begin With Good Facts—Vaccination Sensitive Strategies for Scarce Resource Allocation Are Impractical as Well as Unethical3
Researching Those in the Shadows: Undocumented Immigrants, Vulnerability, and the Significance of Research3
You Might Think You’re Being Coerced When You Aren’t—And Vice Versa3
A Different Slippery Slope3
On Racist Tools and the Bioethics Lexicon3
When Protection From Risk-to-Self Causes Harm: A Brief Analysis of Restraint Use to Prevent Elopement3
Trauma-Informed Approaches in Healthcare Ethics Consultation: A Missing Element in Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs during the Overdose Crisis?3
Acknowledging Complexity and Reimagining IRBs: A Reply to Discussions of the Protection–Inclusion Dilemma3
The Need for an Evolving Informed Consent Process in a Fetal Therapy Trial3
Deception Mode: How Conversational AI Can Respect Patient Autonomy3
Getting It Right: How Public Engagement Might (and Might Not) Help Us Determine What Is Equitable in Genomics and Precision Medicine3
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications3
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option3
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?3
An AI Bill of Rights: Implications for Health Care AI and Machine Learning—A Bioethics Lens3
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases3
Invidious Discrimination v. Conscientious Objection: C’mon, a rose is a rose is a rose!3
Priority is Not a Proportional, Fitting, or Fair Return for Vaccination3
Moral Distress Is a Systemic Problem Requiring Organizational Solutions3
Artificial Placenta – Imminent Ethical Considerations for Research Trials and Clinical Translation3
MAID in America: Expanding Our Gaze on the Ethics of Assistance3
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts3
What is Fair Representation in Research?3
Translating Commercial Health Data Privacy Ethics into Change3
Disentangling Normativity and Ethics3
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?3
The Fine Balance Between Complete Data Integrity in Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems and the Protection of Research Participants3
Ethics Consultation in U.S. Hospitals: Opinions of Ethics Practitioners3
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare3
From Human-in-the-Loop to Human-in-Power3
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing3
From the Front Lines: The Need for Stakeholder Coalitions in Preserving Reproductive Autonomy3
The Role of Law Enforcement in Coercive Psychiatric Interventions3
Digital Simulacra and the Call for Epistemic Responsibility: An Ubuntu Perspective3
Integrating Social Determinants of Health into Ethical Digital Simulations3
Taking the Right to Notice and Explanation Seriously: The Critical Importance of Evidence and Oversight for Healthcare AI3
Vexing Vaccine Ethics: Denying ICU Care to Vaccine Refusers3
Why Stop at a Right to Notice for AI Systems Used in Patient Care? The Need for Greater Specificity3
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?3
Aligning Ongoing Care Teams and Proceduralists About Inappropriate Interventions Requires More Than Conscientious Objection3
Systems, Stress, and Embodied Inequality in Community Health3
Decisions on Innovation or Research for Devastating Disease3
Adolescents, Sensitive Topics, and Appropriate Access to Biomedical Prevention Research3
Restrictions on Abortion, Social Justice and the Ethics of Research in Maternal-Fetal Therapy Trials3
Deconstructing Structural Injustices in the Clinic, Classroom, and Boardroom3
Clinical Ethics at Early Stages: What Growing Strategy?3
Ethics Education for Healthcare Professionals in the Era of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models: Do We Still Need It?3
Reasonable But Not Permissible: Conscientious Objection and Reasonable Disagreement3
Adaptive Medical Machine Learning Models Should Not Be Classified as Perpetual Research, but Do Require New Regulatory Solutions3
Ethics Consultation in U.S. Hospitals: Determinants of Consultation Volume3
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: Ensuring Consistency in Ethical Decision-Making3
Genital Modifications in Prepubescent Minors: When May Clinicians Ethically Proceed?3
The Australian Citizens’ Jury and Global Citizens’ Assembly on Genome Editing3
Distinguishing Moral Stress from Moral Distress: Moving Beyond the Individual to Expose the Systemic Ethical Challenges3
Balancing the Double-Edged Implications of AI in Psychiatric Digital Phenotyping3
Physicians’ Professional Role in Clinical Care: AI as a Change Agent3
Conscientious Objection to Aggressive Interventions for Patients in a Vegetative State3
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