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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question139
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits88
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients85
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?73
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents70
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind64
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death61
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems61
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge56
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?56
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings54
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare48
The Representation Paradox: Rethinking Ethical Standards Through Anticipatory Autonomy47
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?46
What Lane Should We Stay In? Medical Relevance, Medical Necessity, and Clinical Genital Alteration of Minors43
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks41
Weighing Parents’ Reasons Regarding the Use of GLP-1 Medications in Pediatric Care41
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease39
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails34
I Am Not My Genes: Against Genetic Exceptionalism and Essentialism in Justifying Confidentiality Breaches33
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”31
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications30
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare30
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine30
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics29
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts29
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria27
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse27
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action27
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology27
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation26
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?26
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option26
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege26
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards25
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?25
War, Bioethics, and Public Health25
What We Owe Those Who Chat Woe: A Relational Lens for Mental Health Apps24
Expanding Access to Genomic Sequencing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Roadmap to Discharge and Beyond24
Noninvasive Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: A Misplaced Expressive Concern, Tough Policy Choices24
Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine24
Agent-Regret in Healthcare24
Respect for Readiness24
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?24
Making Structural Discrimination Visible: A Call for Intersectional Bioethics23
All Healthcare Ethics Consultation ServicesShouldMeet Shared Quality Standards23
Human Genome Editing and Identity: The Precariousness of Existence and the Abundance of Argumentative Options23
Comparisons Only Yield Valid Mutual Learnings If Based on Accurate Descriptions of the Comparators23
Centering More than Trauma Experiences: Reflections from Launching a Graduate Course on Bioethics & Racial Justice in Canada22
Goldilocks and the Thanatron: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries22
Medical Interpretation Services: Challenges for LEP Communities22
Next Steps for Climate-Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics?21
Critically Evaluating MAID in Canada Through an Inequities Lens21
Autonomy Under Ignorance21
Ethical Care Necessitates Synthesizing the Best Available Evidence21
When Sanctions Meet Corruption: Reframing Healthcare Access in Russia20
Reasons, Persons, Eugenics and an Argument in Favour of Gene Editing20
Genomic Medicine and Equity in Relation to Health Systems19
Informed Consensus: The Future of Respect for Persons in Biomedical Research19
Psychedelic Ethics in Palliative Care19
Racing to the Bottom: Adam Smith’s Hazard Pay Does Not Justify Compensation for Research Risks19
Examining Moral Stress and Moral Distress Through the Lens of Non-Human Animal Clinicians: Understanding Challenges in Animal Healthcare Systems19
Medicalized Oppression: Labels of “Violence Risk” in the Electronic Medical Record19
The Role of Self-Illness Ambiguity and Self-Medication Ambiguity in Clinical Decision-Making19
Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?19
Knowing You Know Better19
Conscription as a Public Health Crisis: A Missing Dimension in the Bioethics of War18
Do Clinicians Need to Understand?: Rethinking the Role of Comprehension and Secular Bias on Religious Reasons17
Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death Violate the Dead Donor Rule?17
Ethical Withdrawal of ECMO Support Over the Objections of Competent Patients17
Informed Consent and Transformative Experiences in Psychedelic Therapy: A Nuanced Approach16
Nurtured Genetics: Prenatal Testing and the Anchoring of Genetic Expectancies16
Is Transparency about the Line between Life and Death Good for Organ Donation?16
Ethical Responsibilities for Companies That Process Personal Data16
Power in the Pragmatic View16
Inpatient Hospitalization of Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Ethical Analysis15
The Postponed Withholding Model: An Autoethnographic Analysis15
Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application Value15
Defining and Defending Personhood: Lessons from the Disease Debate15
The Fallibility of Personal Experience15
OrganEx: What Will It Mean?15
Is the Right to a Healthy Environment Enough? Reckoning with a History of Failures in Chemical Valley14
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities14
Empowering Queer Data Justice14
For Bioethics to Center Justice, We Must Reconsider Funding, Training, and the Taxonomy of Bioethics14
A Paradigm of Investigator Duty to Multiple Stakeholder Participants14
Beware the Jackalopes14
Measuring Value with Volume13
Toward Relational Diversity for AI in Psychotherapy13
Gender Norms, Altruism and Susceptibility to the Social Value Misconception13
Ethical Pathways: Transitioning Whole-Eye Transplantation Into Clinical Practice12
Agent-Regret in Healthcare: Toward a More Precise and Empirical-Based Look into the Dynamics of Agent-Regret Experiences12
Addressing Environmental Injustices Requires a Public Health Ethics and/or Human Rights Perspective12
Diversifying the Bioethics Funding Landscape: The Case of TMS12
Law Enforcement Interventionism as Determinant of Decision-Making Among Resuscitated Opioid Users12
Bioethicists Tomorrow: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Future Directions12
ChatGPT’s Responses to Dilemmas in Medical Ethics: The Devil is in the Details12
The Need for a Global Approach to the Ethical Evaluation of Healthcare Machine Learning11
Request for Correction of an Article Focused Bodywork as Facilitated Communication: Cautionary Perspectives on Touch in Psychedelic Therapy11
ChatGPT’s Relevance for Bioethics: A Novel Challenge to the Intrinsically Relational, Critical, and Reason-Giving Aspect of Healthcare11
The Importance of Structured Reassessment for Unrepresented Patients Receiving Burdensome Life-Sustaining Treatments11
Psychedelic Ethics Beside Institutions11
Prudently Evaluating Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems10
Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy10
What Can Committees Demonstrate That Professional Ethicists Can’t? Impartial Review with Adequate Due Process10
How Ethics Can Better Anticipate the Consequences of Emerging Biotechnologies10
A “Messy Literature” and Administrative Gloss10
Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care10
Materialized Oppression in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design9
Rare Disease, Advocacy, and Caregiver Burnout9
Withdrawal of ECMO Support over the Objections of a Capacitated Patient can be Appropriate9
Should the Use of Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine be Classified as Research?9
Parents Have a Right to Refuse Brain Death Testing, Including Apnea Testing9
See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training9
Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation9
The Importance of Understanding Language in Large Language Models9
Calling for a Multi-Level Green Healthcare Ethics8
Differences in Degree-not-Kind-of Responsibility within Conversational Artificial Intelligence8
There Is Only One Sphere of Morality8
An All-Too-Human Enterprise8
Moral Stress and Moral Distress in a Novel Space of Virtual Healthcare8
An Opportunity to Reconsider Fiduciary Framing in Medicine8
You Don’t Have to Be Bad to Work Here: Sustaining Ideals Inside Healthcare Institutions8
Stewardship or Punishment? Ethical Analysis of Transplant Candidacy for a Child from a Low-Resourced Family7
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Developing a Reflexive, Anticipatory, and Deliberative Approach to Unanticipated Discoveries: Ethical Lessons from iBlastoids”7
Co-Reasoning and Epistemic Inequality in AI Supported Medical Decision-Making7
Strategies for Data Ethics Governance: Elevating Patient and Community Perspectives7
Wither Vulnerability? The Over/Under Protection Dilemma and Research Equity7
Embrace the Gray: How Tackling the Clinical Complexities of the Gray Zone Will Improve Decision-making7
Enhancing Decision-Making Capacity Assessments Beyond Outlier Cases: A Multi-Faceted Health Care Systems Approach7
Different MAiD Laws, Different MAiD Outcomes: Expected Rather Than “Disturbing”7
Beyond Consent: The MAMLS in the Room7
Moral Distress and Moral Stress Among Nurses Facing Challenges in a Health Care System Under Pressure7
Protecting Health Privacy through Reasonable Inferences7
Digital Simulacra: Circumventing Diversity and Inclusion7
Beyond Incommensurability and Appropriateness: Integrating theTelosof Medicine and Addressing Compartmentalization in the Spheres of Morality Framework7
Incorporating Research Burden and Utility Considerations as Limiting Factors in a Framework for Returning IRR7
A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found Elsewhere7
Equipoise and Personal Experience: Maintaining Objectivity in Psychedelic Research7
The Slippery Slope Argument and Assisted Death: Which Approach to MAiD Does It Really Support?7
The Bilingual Patient’s Dilemma: Same Question, Different Answer7
Environmental Justice: A Missing Core Tenet of Global Health7
Who Is Responsible for Promoting Equity in Rare Disease Research?7
Artificial Womb Technology, Catholic Health Care, and Social Justice7
The Brainstem Criterion of Death and Accurate Syndromic Diagnosis7
A Surgeon’s Perspective From the Sharp End of Surgical Innovation7
Correction7
Scapegoat-in-the-Loop? Human Control over Medical AI and the (Mis)Attribution of Responsibility6
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
The Futility Standard Does Not Promote Justice for Unrepresented Patients6
Bounded Justice, Inclusion, and the Hyper/Invisibility of Race in Precision Medicine6
The Dead Donor Rule Does Require that the Donor is Dead6
Racism and the Textures of Visibility6
Maternal-Fetal Therapy: The (Psycho)Social Dilemma6
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
Parrots at the Bedside: Making Surrogate Decisions with Stochastic Strangers6
Death is Biologically Real; Laws About Death are Social Constructions6
Current Medical Aid-in-Dying Laws Discriminate against Individuals with Disabilities6
The Illusion of Ethical Distinction: Why Qualitative Futility and Best Interests Are Not Meaningfully Different6
Building Trauma-Informed Hospital Ethics Cultures6
From CRISPR to Conscience: Ethical Dilemmas in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection6
Complexity of Establishing “Reasonability” in Conscientious Objection Claims6
Using Algorithms to Make Ethical Judgements: METHAD vs. the ADC Model6
Early AI Lifecycle Co-Reasoning: Ethics Through Integrated and Diverse Team Science6
The Dialectics of Racial Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility under the Mestizaje Discourse in Latin America5
Making Ethical Considerations Transparent in the Formulation of Public Health Guidance5
AUTOGEN and the Ethics of Co-Creation with Personalized LLMs—Reply to the Commentaries5
A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)5
Common Rule Revisions to Govern Machine Learning on Indigenous Data: Implementing the Expectations5
Navigating Tensions Between Law and Ethics in Surrogate Decision Making5
Bioethics Consultation and First-Order Moral Reasoning: Leaving Philosophy at the Hospital Doors5
The Intrinsic Value of Public Deliberation in the Governance of Human Genome Editing5
A Knower Without a Voice: Co-Reasoning with Machine Learning5
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: What Can be Learned from a Historical Analysis of General Anesthesia and Surgery?5
Is Gene Editing Harmless? Two Arguments for Gene Editing5
Not All Publics Are the Same—A Note on Power, Diversity, and Lived Expertise in Public Deliberation5
“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
My Story is Traumatic, You Probably Would Not Understand5
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death Conceptually Justifies Death Determination in DCDD and NRP Protocols5
The Patient Preference Predictor: A Timely Boost for Personalized Medicine5
A Justice-Based Defense of a Litmus Test5
Research on the Clinical Translation of Health Care Machine Learning: Ethicists Experiences on Lessons Learned5
Bias and Epistemic Injustice in Conversational AI5
An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk–Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation5
Cultivating Patient-Centered Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Transparency: Considerations for AI Documentation5
Lost in Gestation: On Fetonates, Perinates, and Gestatelings5
The Human and Humanity that Differentiate Withholding from Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy: An ECMO Bridge to Nowhere5
Bridge or Destination: Ethical Complexity, Emotional Unrest5
Social Value, Beneficial Information, and Obligations to Participants in a Trial of Novel COVID-19 Vaccines5
The Potential Role of Nudging in Expanded Noninvasive Prenatal Testing5
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Toward a Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases5
“Essentially as One of Fact to Be Determined by Physicians”: Applying Lessons Learned From Brain Death to Normothermic Regional Perfusion5
Sorry, Not Sorry: Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued5
Bioethics and the Power Asymmetry Contextualizing Experience5
Enrolling Foster Youth in Clinical Trials: Avoiding the Harm of Exclusion5
Behavior Contracts and Lessons from Parenting “Rotten” Kids5
The End of Personhood5
Polygenic Risk Scoring and the Duty to Warn5
Emerging Paradigms for Ethical Review of Research Using Artificial Intelligence5
Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease5
Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria5
Wrongful Birth: AI-Tools for Moral Decisions in Clinical Care in the Absence of Disability Ethics5
The Other Side of the Self-Advocacy Coin: How For-Profit Companies Can Divert the Path to Justice in Rare Disease4
Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, and the Prevention of Forced and Coerced Surgeries4
Recontextualizing Suffering: When Pain Has Purpose4
What Do Rights Have to Do with It?4
Think Pragmatically: Investigators’ Obligations to Patient-Subjects When Research is Embedded in Care4
Clarifying the Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Dobbs4
Clarifying the DDR and DCD4
From “Human in the Loop” to a Participatory System of Governance for AI in Healthcare4
Suspending Ignorance and Broad Consent4
The Benefits of Experience Greatly Exceed the Liabilities4
Personal but Necessarily Predictive? Developing a Bioethics Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Decision-Making Tools4
Epistemic Value of Digital Simulacra for Patients4
International MAiD Policy Oversight: The Global Observatory on MAiD4
From Data to Harm: Exploring Ethical and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits4
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Privacy and Health Practices in the Digital Age”4
“I Can Decide for Myself:” Adolescents Who Wish to Consent for Covid-19 Vaccination4
Should the Incapacitated Patient’s Prior Refusal of Dialysis Be Honored? The Value of a Systematic Approach to Gathering Data in an Ethics Consultation4
Protecting Privacy While Optimizing the Use of (Health)Data: The Importance of Measures and Safeguards4
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
“Sorry, but the Ethicist Said Your Life Isn’t Actually Worth Living”: Misunderstanding Ethics and the Role of the Ethics Consultant4
From Pressures to Enforcement: Understanding Undue Influence in Community Mental Health Care4
Why Personalized Large Language Models Fail to Do What Ethics is All About4
Progressing from “Whether to” to “How to” Conduct Pragmatic Trials4
Slowing the Slide Down the Slippery Slope of Medical Assistance in Dying: Mutual Learnings for Canada and the US4
Global Pharmaceutical Companies’ Obligations to Restart Clinical Research in Ukraine4
Environmental Justice in and of Healthcare4
Erasing Blackness From Bioethics4
Stepping Up or Stepping Back: FDA Roles in Producing and Shaping Knowledge of Pediatric Covid-19 Vaccines4
Improving Ethics Support: Seeing and Organizing Ethics Support Differently4
Against Externalism in Capacity Assessment—Why Apparently Harmful Treatment Refusals Should Not Be Decisive for Finding Patients Incompetent4
Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making4
The Two Sides of the Social Value Misconception4
A Neuroethical Analysis of Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Balancing Diverse Interests associated with Collateral Findings4
The Medical Profession Determines Standards for Death Determination4
Considering Reprogenomics in the Ethical Future of Fetal Therapy Trials4
Expanding the Scope of Justified Beliefs Relevant to Coercion4
Environmental Injustices within Us: The Case of the Human Microbiome and the Need for More Creative Bioethics4
Inclusivity as Fairness4
Even Offense Can Be a ‘Normatively Substantive Problem’ in Bioethics: Specificity and Relationality as Alternatives to ‘Personhood’4
Reproductive Justice and Abolition: Important Lessons Black Feminists Have Been Teaching Us for Years4
Addressing Prescription Drug Costs in a Broken System4
International Bioethics Conferencing: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”4
Applying the Harm Principle to Elder Care4
There Are Priorities and Then There Are Priorities: A Prior Question About the Perpetuation of Injustice Through Bioethics Research Funding4
Rare Disease, Advocacy and Justice: Intersecting Disparities in Research and Clinical Care4
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