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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question93
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits92
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?79
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind68
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death60
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems57
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge54
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings50
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare49
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks49
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease47
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails40
I Am Not My Genes: Against Genetic Exceptionalism and Essentialism in Justifying Confidentiality Breaches40
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?38
What Lane Should We Stay In? Medical Relevance, Medical Necessity, and Clinical Genital Alteration of Minors36
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine35
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare34
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications34
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts33
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria32
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse32
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?31
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option31
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege31
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation31
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?29
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics29
Expanding Access to Genomic Sequencing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Roadmap to Discharge and Beyond28
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards27
Agent-Regret in Healthcare27
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients27
Weighing Parents’ Reasons Regarding the Use of GLP-1 Medications in Pediatric Care26
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action26
The Representation Paradox: Rethinking Ethical Standards Through Anticipatory Autonomy25
Sharing Agency versus Extending the Self: Relationality and Metaphorical Differences in Dementia Care25
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?25
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology25
The Unattainable Standard25
Ad Planetam per Aspera: Beyond Human Health Extensionism24
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?24
Beyond Fictionality: How Designers and Healthcare Providers Shape the Conceptualization of Conversational AI24
The Dubious Benefits of Normalizing Treatments24
Upstream from Urosepsis: Removing Race from Pediatric Urinary Tract Infection Algorithms24
War, Bioethics, and Public Health23
Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine23
Noninvasive Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: A Misplaced Expressive Concern, Tough Policy Choices23
Human Genome Editing and Identity: The Precariousness of Existence and the Abundance of Argumentative Options22
Comparisons Only Yield Valid Mutual Learnings If Based on Accurate Descriptions of the Comparators22
Next Steps for Climate-Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics?21
Goldilocks and the Thanatron: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries21
Ethical Care Necessitates Synthesizing the Best Available Evidence21
Autonomy Under Ignorance21
Conscription as a Public Health Crisis: A Missing Dimension in the Bioethics of War21
Centering More than Trauma Experiences: Reflections from Launching a Graduate Course on Bioethics & Racial Justice in Canada21
Reasons, Persons, Eugenics and an Argument in Favour of Gene Editing20
Ethical and Regulatory Concerns Regarding Potential Research Participants Who Are Justice Involved, But Not Incarcerated: Application of 45 CFR 46 Subpart C in the Healthy Brain and Child Development 20
Medicalized Oppression: Labels of “Violence Risk” in the Electronic Medical Record20
Speaking Without Knowing: Ethical Risks in Public Commentary on Patient Cases19
Ethical Responsibilities for Companies That Process Personal Data19
Examining Moral Stress and Moral Distress Through the Lens of Non-Human Animal Clinicians: Understanding Challenges in Animal Healthcare Systems19
Inequity Lies in the Inability to Reject Marginal Organs19
Knowing You Know Better19
Engagement Versus Therapeutic Alliance: Large Language Models in AI Psychotherapy18
Ethical Withdrawal of ECMO Support Over the Objections of Competent Patients18
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replicate Human Presence in Psychotherapy18
When Life Support Becomes Unfair: Issues Related to Resource Allocation in the Smith Case18
Medical Interpretation Services: Challenges for LEP Communities17
When It Comes to AI for Mental Health, the Real Problem Isn’t in the AIs Seeking FDA Approval, but in Those That Don’t17
Do Clinicians Need to Understand?: Rethinking the Role of Comprehension and Secular Bias on Religious Reasons17
Informed Consent and Transformative Experiences in Psychedelic Therapy: A Nuanced Approach17
Critically Evaluating MAID in Canada Through an Inequities Lens17
Informed Consensus: The Future of Respect for Persons in Biomedical Research16
Psychedelic Ethics in Palliative Care16
When Sanctions Meet Corruption: Reframing Healthcare Access in Russia15
Racing to the Bottom: Adam Smith’s Hazard Pay Does Not Justify Compensation for Research Risks15
Genomic Medicine and Equity in Relation to Health Systems15
What We Owe Those Who Chat Woe: A Relational Lens for Mental Health Apps15
Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application Value14
Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?14
Is Transparency about the Line between Life and Death Good for Organ Donation?14
Defining and Defending Personhood: Lessons from the Disease Debate14
The Postponed Withholding Model: An Autoethnographic Analysis14
Computer Says: I Don’t Know? – On Epistemic Humility as a Condition for Human-AI Collaboration14
Use of AI as a Research Recruitment Tool: Ethical Elements, Considerations, and Recommendations14
The Fallibility of Personal Experience14
Nurtured Genetics: Prenatal Testing and the Anchoring of Genetic Expectancies14
Power in the Pragmatic View14
OrganEx: What Will It Mean?14
Is the Right to a Healthy Environment Enough? Reckoning with a History of Failures in Chemical Valley13
Rare Disease, Advocacy, and Caregiver Burnout13
For Bioethics to Center Justice, We Must Reconsider Funding, Training, and the Taxonomy of Bioethics13
Agent-Regret in Healthcare: Toward a More Precise and Empirical-Based Look into the Dynamics of Agent-Regret Experiences13
Empowering Queer Data Justice13
Beware the Jackalopes13
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities13
A Paradigm of Investigator Duty to Multiple Stakeholder Participants12
Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation12
The Importance of Understanding Language in Large Language Models12
Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy12
Ethical Pathways: Transitioning Whole-Eye Transplantation Into Clinical Practice12
Addressing Environmental Injustices Requires a Public Health Ethics and/or Human Rights Perspective12
Toward Relational Diversity for AI in Psychotherapy12
Bioethicists Tomorrow: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Future Directions12
Law Enforcement Interventionism as Determinant of Decision-Making Among Resuscitated Opioid Users12
Withdrawal of ECMO Support over the Objections of a Capacitated Patient can be Appropriate11
Psychedelic Ethics Beside Institutions11
See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training11
Request for Correction of an Article Focused Bodywork as Facilitated Communication: Cautionary Perspectives on Touch in Psychedelic Therapy11
A “Messy Literature” and Administrative Gloss11
Materialized Oppression in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design11
Prudently Evaluating Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems11
The Importance of Structured Reassessment for Unrepresented Patients Receiving Burdensome Life-Sustaining Treatments11
Gender Norms, Altruism and Susceptibility to the Social Value Misconception10
An Ethical Critique of the Doctor’s White Coat and the Patient’s Gown10
ChatGPT’s Responses to Dilemmas in Medical Ethics: The Devil is in the Details10
What Can Committees Demonstrate That Professional Ethicists Can’t? Impartial Review with Adequate Due Process10
Embodiment, Medicalization, and Morality9
ChatGPT’s Relevance for Bioethics: A Novel Challenge to the Intrinsically Relational, Critical, and Reason-Giving Aspect of Healthcare9
Ethical and Clinical Perspectives on Inpatient Psychiatric Care for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder9
Premature Birth, Embodied Experience, and Moral Complexity9
Inpatient Hospitalization of Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Ethical Analysis9
Waiver of Informed Consent-A Necessary Tool for Just Research in Minimal Risk Studies9
Should the Use of Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine be Classified as Research?9
Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care9
There Is Only One Sphere of Morality8
An Opportunity to Reconsider Fiduciary Framing in Medicine8
Equipoise and Personal Experience: Maintaining Objectivity in Psychedelic Research8
Enhancing Decision-Making Capacity Assessments Beyond Outlier Cases: A Multi-Faceted Health Care Systems Approach8
Moral Stress and Moral Distress in a Novel Space of Virtual Healthcare8
The Slippery Slope Argument and Assisted Death: Which Approach to MAiD Does It Really Support?8
A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found Elsewhere8
Stewardship or Punishment? Ethical Analysis of Transplant Candidacy for a Child from a Low-Resourced Family8
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
A Surgeon’s Perspective From the Sharp End of Surgical Innovation8
Bounded Justice, Inclusion, and the Hyper/Invisibility of Race in Precision Medicine7
Hospital Ethics Committees and Consultants: How Do Clinicians Perceive Their Utility in Resolving Disagreements About Life-Sustaining Treatments?7
Lessons Learned from Reproductive Justice: Communication with the Public to Earn and Maintain Trust of New and Existing Innovations7
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
Digital Simulacra: Circumventing Diversity and Inclusion7
Using Algorithms to Make Ethical Judgements: METHAD vs. the ADC Model7
The Illusion of Ethical Distinction: Why Qualitative Futility and Best Interests Are Not Meaningfully Different7
Artificial Womb Technology, Catholic Health Care, and Social Justice7
Co-Reasoning and Epistemic Inequality in AI Supported Medical Decision-Making7
Strategies for Data Ethics Governance: Elevating Patient and Community Perspectives7
The Brainstem Criterion of Death and Accurate Syndromic Diagnosis7
Environmental Justice: A Missing Core Tenet of Global Health7
Correction7
The Dead Donor Rule Does Require that the Donor is Dead7
The Futility Standard Does Not Promote Justice for Unrepresented Patients7
Early AI Lifecycle Co-Reasoning: Ethics Through Integrated and Diverse Team Science7
Parrots at the Bedside: Making Surrogate Decisions with Stochastic Strangers7
Building Trauma-Informed Hospital Ethics Cultures7
Protecting Health Privacy through Reasonable Inferences7
Beyond Consent: The MAMLS in the Room7
Embrace the Gray: How Tackling the Clinical Complexities of the Gray Zone Will Improve Decision-making7
Death is Biologically Real; Laws About Death are Social Constructions7
An All-Too-Human Enterprise7
Current Medical Aid-in-Dying Laws Discriminate against Individuals with Disabilities6
Abortion and Embodiment: Anatomy, Physiology, and Personhood6
The End of Personhood6
Calling for a Multi-Level Green Healthcare Ethics6
The Concept of Personal Utility in Genomic Testing: Three Ethical Tensions6
The Bilingual Patient’s Dilemma: Same Question, Different Answer6
Differences in Degree-not-Kind-of Responsibility within Conversational Artificial Intelligence6
Complexity of Establishing “Reasonability” in Conscientious Objection Claims6
Wither Vulnerability? The Over/Under Protection Dilemma and Research Equity6
From a Restrictive to Relational Approach: the Concept of Parental Utility in Germline Genomic Testing6
Who Is Responsible for Promoting Equity in Rare Disease Research?6
Different MAiD Laws, Different MAiD Outcomes: Expected Rather Than “Disturbing”6
The Dangers of Using AI Psychotherapy Chatbots to Treat Eating Disorders6
Scapegoat-in-the-Loop? Human Control over Medical AI and the (Mis)Attribution of Responsibility6
Bias and Epistemic Injustice in Conversational AI6
From Fiction to Fiduciary: Reframing AI Trust in Mental Healthcare6
Racism and the Textures of Visibility6
(Ir)Relevance of Ethics Committees: The Continued Value of Hospital Ethics Committees in Programs with Professional Ethicist Staffing6
Bioethics Consultation and First-Order Moral Reasoning: Leaving Philosophy at the Hospital Doors5
Protecting Privacy While Optimizing the Use of (Health)Data: The Importance of Measures and Safeguards5
The Dialectics of Racial Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility under the Mestizaje Discourse in Latin America5
A Communitarian Ethics Approach to Ambient Intelligence Systems in Healthcare5
Polygenic Risk Scoring and the Duty to Warn5
Sorry, Not Sorry: Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued5
The Patient Preference Predictor: A Timely Boost for Personalized Medicine5
“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
A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)5
The Intrinsic Value of Public Deliberation in the Governance of Human Genome Editing5
The Potential Role of Nudging in Expanded Noninvasive Prenatal Testing5
Not All Publics Are the Same—A Note on Power, Diversity, and Lived Expertise in Public Deliberation5
The Human and Humanity that Differentiate Withholding from Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy: An ECMO Bridge to Nowhere5
An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk–Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation5
Moral Distress and Moral Stress Among Nurses Facing Challenges in a Health Care System Under Pressure5
Is Gene Editing Harmless? Two Arguments for Gene Editing5
Bridge or Destination: Ethical Complexity, Emotional Unrest5
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: What Can be Learned from a Historical Analysis of General Anesthesia and Surgery?5
Eliminating or Calibrating the Role of Chance? Acute Resource Scarcity as a Challenge for Luck Egalitarianism5
Rare Disease, Advocacy and Justice: Intersecting Disparities in Research and Clinical Care5
“Essentially as One of Fact to Be Determined by Physicians”: Applying Lessons Learned From Brain Death to Normothermic Regional Perfusion5
Wrongful Birth: AI-Tools for Moral Decisions in Clinical Care in the Absence of Disability Ethics5
A Justice-Based Defense of a Litmus Test5
From Data to Harm: Exploring Ethical and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits5
Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease5
Social Value, Beneficial Information, and Obligations to Participants in a Trial of Novel COVID-19 Vaccines5
Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making5
Navigating Tensions Between Law and Ethics in Surrogate Decision Making5
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Toward a Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases5
Cultivating Patient-Centered Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Transparency: Considerations for AI Documentation5
The Two Sides of the Social Value Misconception5
The Medical Profession Determines Standards for Death Determination5
Health Equity Frameworks in Bioethical Perspective: Systemic Interventions and Innovative Justice5
Recontextualizing Suffering: When Pain Has Purpose5
Common Rule Revisions to Govern Machine Learning on Indigenous Data: Implementing the Expectations5
A Knower Without a Voice: Co-Reasoning with Machine Learning5
Making Ethical Considerations Transparent in the Formulation of Public Health Guidance5
Lost in Gestation: On Fetonates, Perinates, and Gestatelings5
Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria5
From CRISPR to Conscience: Ethical Dilemmas in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection5
Bioethics and the Power Asymmetry Contextualizing Experience5
Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making4
What Can We Ask of Hospitals? Conceptual Foundations for an Ethics of Healthcare Organizations4
Epistemic Value of Digital Simulacra for Patients4
International Bioethics Conferencing: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”4
Personal but Necessarily Predictive? Developing a Bioethics Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Decision-Making Tools4
Educating on Principles: Do or Don’t?4
Putting a Pronouncement about Personhood into Perspective4
Capacity, Rationality, and the Promotion of Autonomy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Refusals of Care After Opioid Poisoning4
Reconfiguring Health: The Importance of Recognizing Embodied Subjectivity and Social Dynamics in Health4
Invidious Discrimination v. Conscientious Objection: C’mon, a rose is a rose is a rose!4
Who’s Experience, Which Liability?4
From “Human in the Loop” to a Participatory System of Governance for AI in Healthcare4
Suspending Ignorance and Broad Consent4
Academic and Private Partnership to Improve Informed Consent Forms Using a Data Driven Approach4
Inclusivity as Fairness4
Excusing Psychedelics and Accommodating Psychedelics4
Random vs Randomized Care: Implications for Consent to Research Participation4
Translating Commercial Health Data Privacy Ethics into Change4
We Need Role Fidelity and Integrity to Avoid Moral Compartmentalization, Not Sphere or Role Moralities4
Ethical Issues in Death by Neurologic Criteria Require Critical Scrutiny: Lack of Engagement with Sound Arguments to Save Medical Dogma4
Special Considerations When Research is Embedded within Community Health Centers4
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
Data Safety Monitoring and Collateral Benefits in Decentralized Trials4
Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion4
Responding to Moral Distress During Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Taxonomy for Advanced Clinical Ethics Practices4
When ICE Brings You the Patient … Hospitals Must Stop Victimizing Forensic Patients4
Adaptive Machine Learning as Research: Does the Cure Fit the Disease?4
Current Ethical Considerations of Human Whole Eye Transplantation is Short-Sighted4
Comparing the Results of Two Surveys on the Views of Bioethicists4
Appreciating Language in Bioethics: From Theory to Practice4
Some Problems with the ‘It Has Been Decided That You Will Die and Are No Longer in Need of Your Organs Donor Rule’4
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