American Journal of Bioethics

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of 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
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question135
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits88
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients78
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?70
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents66
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind62
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death61
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems56
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?55
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge55
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases54
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings47
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare45
The Representation Paradox: Rethinking Ethical Standards Through Anticipatory Autonomy44
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks41
War, Bioethics, and Public Health40
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards38
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails34
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease34
I Am Not My Genes: Against Genetic Exceptionalism and Essentialism in Justifying Confidentiality Breaches33
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine31
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare30
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts29
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications29
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics28
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?28
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria27
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology26
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action26
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?26
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?26
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”26
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse25
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege25
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option24
Weighing Parents’ Reasons Regarding the Use of GLP-1 Medications in Pediatric Care24
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?24
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?24
Agent-Regret in Healthcare24
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation24
What Lane Should We Stay In? Medical Relevance, Medical Necessity, and Clinical Genital Alteration of Minors24
Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine23
Noninvasive Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: A Misplaced Expressive Concern, Tough Policy Choices23
What We Owe Those Who Chat Woe: A Relational Lens for Mental Health Apps23
Comparisons Only Yield Valid Mutual Learnings If Based on Accurate Descriptions of the Comparators23
Respect for Readiness23
Decisions on Innovation or Research for Devastating Disease22
All Healthcare Ethics Consultation ServicesShouldMeet Shared Quality Standards22
Making Structural Discrimination Visible: A Call for Intersectional Bioethics22
Centering More than Trauma Experiences: Reflections from Launching a Graduate Course on Bioethics & Racial Justice in Canada21
Nurtured Genetics: Prenatal Testing and the Anchoring of Genetic Expectancies21
Goldilocks and the Thanatron: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries21
Human Genome Editing and Identity: The Precariousness of Existence and the Abundance of Argumentative Options21
Medical Interpretation Services: Challenges for LEP Communities20
Autonomy Under Ignorance20
Next Steps for Climate-Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics?19
Reasons, Persons, Eugenics and an Argument in Favour of Gene Editing19
Racing to the Bottom: Adam Smith’s Hazard Pay Does Not Justify Compensation for Research Risks19
Informed Consent and Transformative Experiences in Psychedelic Therapy: A Nuanced Approach19
When Sanctions Meet Corruption: Reframing Healthcare Access in Russia19
Ethical Care Necessitates Synthesizing the Best Available Evidence19
Medicalized Oppression: Labels of “Violence Risk” in the Electronic Medical Record19
Critically Evaluating MAID in Canada Through an Inequities Lens19
Psychedelic Ethics in Palliative Care18
Knowing You Know Better18
The Role of Self-Illness Ambiguity and Self-Medication Ambiguity in Clinical Decision-Making18
Examining Moral Stress and Moral Distress Through the Lens of Non-Human Animal Clinicians: Understanding Challenges in Animal Healthcare Systems18
Conscription as a Public Health Crisis: A Missing Dimension in the Bioethics of War17
Ethical Withdrawal of ECMO Support Over the Objections of Competent Patients17
Ethical Responsibilities for Companies That Process Personal Data16
Informed Consensus: The Future of Respect for Persons in Biomedical Research16
Do Clinicians Need to Understand?: Rethinking the Role of Comprehension and Secular Bias on Religious Reasons16
Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?16
Materialized Oppression in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design15
Is Transparency about the Line between Life and Death Good for Organ Donation?15
Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death Violate the Dead Donor Rule?15
The Postponed Withholding Model: An Autoethnographic Analysis15
Power in the Pragmatic View15
OrganEx: What Will It Mean?15
Rare Disease, Advocacy, and Caregiver Burnout14
See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training14
Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application Value14
Inpatient Hospitalization of Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Ethical Analysis14
The Fallibility of Personal Experience14
Defining and Defending Personhood: Lessons from the Disease Debate14
A Paradigm of Investigator Duty to Multiple Stakeholder Participants13
For Bioethics to Center Justice, We Must Reconsider Funding, Training, and the Taxonomy of Bioethics13
Empowering Queer Data Justice13
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities12
Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy12
Measuring Value with Volume12
Beware the Jackalopes12
Gender Norms, Altruism and Susceptibility to the Social Value Misconception12
Is the Right to a Healthy Environment Enough? Reckoning with a History of Failures in Chemical Valley12
How Ethics Can Better Anticipate the Consequences of Emerging Biotechnologies12
Toward Relational Diversity for AI in Psychotherapy11
Diversifying the Bioethics Funding Landscape: The Case of TMS11
Should the Use of Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine be Classified as Research?11
ChatGPT’s Responses to Dilemmas in Medical Ethics: The Devil is in the Details11
Agent-Regret in Healthcare: Toward a More Precise and Empirical-Based Look into the Dynamics of Agent-Regret Experiences10
Bioethicists Tomorrow: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Future Directions10
Addressing Environmental Injustices Requires a Public Health Ethics and/or Human Rights Perspective9
The Need for a Global Approach to the Ethical Evaluation of Healthcare Machine Learning9
Request for Correction of an Article Focused Bodywork as Facilitated Communication: Cautionary Perspectives on Touch in Psychedelic Therapy9
Ethical Pathways: Transitioning Whole-Eye Transplantation Into Clinical Practice9
A “Messy Literature” and Administrative Gloss9
ChatGPT’s Relevance for Bioethics: A Novel Challenge to the Intrinsically Relational, Critical, and Reason-Giving Aspect of Healthcare9
Psychedelic Ethics Beside Institutions9
Law Enforcement Interventionism as Determinant of Decision-Making Among Resuscitated Opioid Users9
The Importance of Structured Reassessment for Unrepresented Patients Receiving Burdensome Life-Sustaining Treatments9
The Importance of Understanding Language in Large Language Models8
Parents Have a Right to Refuse Brain Death Testing, Including Apnea Testing8
You Don’t Have to Be Bad to Work Here: Sustaining Ideals Inside Healthcare Institutions8
What Can Committees Demonstrate That Professional Ethicists Can’t? Impartial Review with Adequate Due Process8
Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation8
Data Properties or Analytical Methodologies: Too Much Attention to the Former Ignores Concerns About the Latter8
Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care8
Prudently Evaluating Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems8
Withdrawal of ECMO Support over the Objections of a Capacitated Patient can be Appropriate8
Moral Stress and Moral Distress in a Novel Space of Virtual Healthcare8
Stewardship or Punishment? Ethical Analysis of Transplant Candidacy for a Child from a Low-Resourced Family7
Correction7
The Slippery Slope Argument and Assisted Death: Which Approach to MAiD Does It Really Support?7
There Is Only One Sphere of Morality7
Calling for a Multi-Level Green Healthcare Ethics7
A Surgeon’s Perspective From the Sharp End of Surgical Innovation7
Strategies for Data Ethics Governance: Elevating Patient and Community Perspectives7
The Bilingual Patient’s Dilemma: Same Question, Different Answer7
Enhancing Decision-Making Capacity Assessments Beyond Outlier Cases: A Multi-Faceted Health Care Systems Approach7
Current Medical Aid-in-Dying Laws Discriminate against Individuals with Disabilities7
An Opportunity to Reconsider Fiduciary Framing in Medicine7
Equipoise and Personal Experience: Maintaining Objectivity in Psychedelic Research7
A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found Elsewhere7
The Brainstem Criterion of Death and Accurate Syndromic Diagnosis7
Beyond Consent: The MAMLS in the Room7
Different MAiD Laws, Different MAiD Outcomes: Expected Rather Than “Disturbing”7
Differences in Degree-not-Kind-of Responsibility within Conversational Artificial Intelligence7
An All-Too-Human Enterprise7
Moral Distress and Moral Stress Among Nurses Facing Challenges in a Health Care System Under Pressure7
Embrace the Gray: How Tackling the Clinical Complexities of the Gray Zone Will Improve Decision-making7
Incorporating Research Burden and Utility Considerations as Limiting Factors in a Framework for Returning IRR7
Protecting Health Privacy through Reasonable Inferences6
Maternal-Fetal Therapy: The (Psycho)Social Dilemma6
Hospital Ethics Committees and Consultants: How Do Clinicians Perceive Their Utility in Resolving Disagreements About Life-Sustaining Treatments?6
(Ir)Relevance of Ethics Committees: The Continued Value of Hospital Ethics Committees in Programs with Professional Ethicist Staffing6
Wither Vulnerability? The Over/Under Protection Dilemma and Research Equity6
Beyond Incommensurability and Appropriateness: Integrating theTelosof Medicine and Addressing Compartmentalization in the Spheres of Morality Framework6
Complexity of Establishing “Reasonability” in Conscientious Objection Claims6
The Futility Standard Does Not Promote Justice for Unrepresented Patients6
Lessons Learned from Reproductive Justice: Communication with the Public to Earn and Maintain Trust of New and Existing Innovations6
The Concept of Personal Utility in Genomic Testing: Three Ethical Tensions6
Co-Reasoning and Epistemic Inequality in AI Supported Medical Decision-Making6
Artificial Womb Technology, Catholic Health Care, and Social Justice6
Who Is Responsible for Promoting Equity in Rare Disease Research?6
Environmental Justice: A Missing Core Tenet of Global Health6
The Illusion of Ethical Distinction: Why Qualitative Futility and Best Interests Are Not Meaningfully Different6
Building Trauma-Informed Hospital Ethics Cultures6
Parrots at the Bedside: Making Surrogate Decisions with Stochastic Strangers6
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Developing a Reflexive, Anticipatory, and Deliberative Approach to Unanticipated Discoveries: Ethical Lessons from iBlastoids”6
Digital Simulacra: Circumventing Diversity and Inclusion6
Another Cautionary Lesson from COVID Research5
Bias and Epistemic Injustice in Conversational AI5
“What Does a Life Worth Living Mean to You?” Narrative Approaches to Ethics Consultation in the Context of Trauma, Treatment Refractory Depression, and Life-Sustaining Care Refusals5
Cultivating Patient-Centered Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Transparency: Considerations for AI Documentation5
Navigating Tensions Between Law and Ethics in Surrogate Decision Making5
Behavior Contracts and Lessons from Parenting “Rotten” Kids5
Sorry, Not Sorry: Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued5
The End of Personhood5
The Intrinsic Value of Public Deliberation in the Governance of Human Genome Editing5
Racism and the Textures of Visibility5
Bounded Justice, Inclusion, and the Hyper/Invisibility of Race in Precision Medicine5
The Dead Donor Rule Does Require that the Donor is Dead5
An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk–Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation5
Wrongful Birth: AI-Tools for Moral Decisions in Clinical Care in the Absence of Disability Ethics5
Emerging Paradigms for Ethical Review of Research Using Artificial Intelligence5
“I Can Decide for Myself:” Adolescents Who Wish to Consent for Covid-19 Vaccination5
Enrolling Foster Youth in Clinical Trials: Avoiding the Harm of Exclusion5
AUTOGEN and the Ethics of Co-Creation with Personalized LLMs—Reply to the Commentaries5
A Knower Without a Voice: Co-Reasoning with Machine Learning5
From CRISPR to Conscience: Ethical Dilemmas in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection5
Scapegoat-in-the-Loop? Human Control over Medical AI and the (Mis)Attribution of Responsibility5
Research on the Clinical Translation of Health Care Machine Learning: Ethicists Experiences on Lessons Learned5
The Potential Role of Nudging in Expanded Noninvasive Prenatal Testing5
Making Ethical Considerations Transparent in the Formulation of Public Health Guidance5
Polygenic Risk Scoring and the Duty to Warn5
Early AI Lifecycle Co-Reasoning: Ethics Through Integrated and Diverse Team Science5
Common Rule Revisions to Govern Machine Learning on Indigenous Data: Implementing the Expectations5
Bioethics Consultation and First-Order Moral Reasoning: Leaving Philosophy at the Hospital Doors5
A Justice-Based Defense of a Litmus Test5
Death is Biologically Real; Laws About Death are Social Constructions5
Using Algorithms to Make Ethical Judgements: METHAD vs. the ADC Model5
International MAiD Policy Oversight: The Global Observatory on MAiD4
The Patient Preference Predictor: A Timely Boost for Personalized Medicine4
Expanding the Scope of Justified Beliefs Relevant to Coercion4
Bioethics and the Power Asymmetry Contextualizing Experience4
Stepping Up or Stepping Back: FDA Roles in Producing and Shaping Knowledge of Pediatric Covid-19 Vaccines4
Protecting Privacy While Optimizing the Use of (Health)Data: The Importance of Measures and Safeguards4
Excusing Psychedelics and Accommodating Psychedelics4
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: What Can be Learned from a Historical Analysis of General Anesthesia and Surgery?4
Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria4
Promising Practices for Inclusive Precision Medicine Research and the Contribution to Public and Population Health4
Social Value, Beneficial Information, and Obligations to Participants in a Trial of Novel COVID-19 Vaccines4
Dementia, Frailty and Triage in a Pandemic4
Is Gene Editing Harmless? Two Arguments for Gene Editing4
Transforming Behavior Contracts Into Collaborative Commitments With Families4
A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)4
Clarifying the Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Dobbs4
The Medical Profession Determines Standards for Death Determination4
The Other Side of the Self-Advocacy Coin: How For-Profit Companies Can Divert the Path to Justice in Rare Disease4
Recontextualizing Suffering: When Pain Has Purpose4
There Are Priorities and Then There Are Priorities: A Prior Question About the Perpetuation of Injustice Through Bioethics Research Funding4
Data Safety Monitoring and Collateral Benefits in Decentralized Trials4
Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, and the Prevention of Forced and Coerced Surgeries4
Slowing the Slide Down the Slippery Slope of Medical Assistance in Dying: Mutual Learnings for Canada and the US4
Rare Disease, Advocacy and Justice: Intersecting Disparities in Research and Clinical Care4
Addressing Prescription Drug Costs in a Broken System4
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death Conceptually Justifies Death Determination in DCDD and NRP Protocols4
Reestablishing Circulation in Donors: To What Degree Does It Matter?4
Physician Responsibility to Discuss Palliative Unproven Therapies With Out-of-Option Patients4
Not All Publics Are the Same—A Note on Power, Diversity, and Lived Expertise in Public Deliberation4
Erasing Blackness From Bioethics4
The Dialectics of Racial Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility under the Mestizaje Discourse in Latin America4
Academic and Private Partnership to Improve Informed Consent Forms Using a Data Driven Approach4
My Story is Traumatic, You Probably Would Not Understand4
Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion4
Applying the Harm Principle to Elder Care4
Epistemic Value of Digital Simulacra for Patients4
Eliminating or Calibrating the Role of Chance? Acute Resource Scarcity as a Challenge for Luck Egalitarianism4
Some Problems with the ‘It Has Been Decided That You Will Die and Are No Longer in Need of Your Organs Donor Rule’4
Against Externalism in Capacity Assessment—Why Apparently Harmful Treatment Refusals Should Not Be Decisive for Finding Patients Incompetent4
The Two Sides of the Social Value Misconception4
From Pressures to Enforcement: Understanding Undue Influence in Community Mental Health Care4
Improving Ethics Support: Seeing and Organizing Ethics Support Differently4
Considering Reprogenomics in the Ethical Future of Fetal Therapy Trials4
“Essentially as One of Fact to Be Determined by Physicians”: Applying Lessons Learned From Brain Death to Normothermic Regional Perfusion4
Think Pragmatically: Investigators’ Obligations to Patient-Subjects When Research is Embedded in Care4
Lost in Gestation: On Fetonates, Perinates, and Gestatelings4
Privacy, Health, and Race Equity in the Digital Age4
The Human and Humanity that Differentiate Withholding from Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy: An ECMO Bridge to Nowhere4
Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease4
The Predictive Value of Moral Diversity in Bioethics4
Bridge or Destination: Ethical Complexity, Emotional Unrest4
Environmental Injustices within Us: The Case of the Human Microbiome and the Need for More Creative Bioethics4
“Sorry, but the Ethicist Said Your Life Isn’t Actually Worth Living”: Misunderstanding Ethics and the Role of the Ethics Consultant4
From Data to Harm: Exploring Ethical and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits4
Health Equity Frameworks in Bioethical Perspective: Systemic Interventions and Innovative Justice4
Should the Incapacitated Patient’s Prior Refusal of Dialysis Be Honored? The Value of a Systematic Approach to Gathering Data in an Ethics Consultation4
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Toward a Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases4
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Privacy and Health Practices in the Digital Age”4
De-Medicalizing Abortion3
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