Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Bioethics is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis77
Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations46
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent41
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On the prospects of longtermism28
Digitally supported public health interventions through the lens of structural injustice: The case of mobile apps responding to violence against women and girls28
Reproductive Technologies and family ties27
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Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines24
The delivery of health services as resistance23
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications19
Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View18
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children18
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies17
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners17
The commonsense case for common morality16
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial16
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics15
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Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens14
Handle with care: Assessing performance measures of medical AI for shared clinical decision‐making14
A defense of ectogenic abortion14
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm14
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics14
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies13
Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship13
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation13
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness13
Grief, trauma and mistaken identity: Ethically deceiving people living with dementia in complex cases12
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research12
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds11
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research11
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn11
Freedom as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic11
From Abstinence to Assistance: Antinatalism's Unexpected Endorsement of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence11
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war10
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Slow codes as ethical disobedience10
Bioethics, public reason, and religion: The liberalism problem By Fleck, Leonard M., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 75. £17.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 978100907805410
Freedom of choice and the tobacco endgame10
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity10
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics10
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination9
Racism in healthcare and bioethics9
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Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion9
Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements9
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Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers8
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour8
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities8
Translational bioethics8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?8
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views8
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics8
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye8
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation7
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’7
Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation7
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective7
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection7
Religious pluralism in healthcare7
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Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations7
Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know By Bonnie Steinbock and Paul T. Menzel, New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 308. $56.86 USD/$85.30 CDN (hardcover). ISBN 97801976579997, $20.95 USD/$20.7
Ethicists and the Gaza War7
What is special about conscientious objection?6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions6
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Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing6
Creating a safer and better functioning system: Lessons to be learned from the Netherlands for an ethical defence of an autonomy‐only approach to assisted dying6
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice6
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent6
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Understanding the right to health in the context of collective rights to self‐determination6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach6
The ethics of precision health6
To remember, or not to remember? Potential impact of memory modification on narrative identity, personal agency, mental health, and well‐being6
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities6
Dementia care, robot pets, and aliefs6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI6
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield5
Inducing immunity? Justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesitancy By RolandPierik and MarcelVerweij, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 248. US $45.00. (Paperback). ISBN: 978026255
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health5
A critical take on procreative justice5
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans5
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Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences5
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction5
The cambridge handbook of health research regulation Graeme Laurie, Edward Dove, Agomoni Ganguli‐Mitra, Catriona Mamillan, Emily Postan, Nayha Sethi, and Annie Sorbie (Eds.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U5
Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research5
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study5
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?4
‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection4
Why restrict medical effective altruism?4
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work4
Resistance in health and healthcare: Applying Essex conceptualisation to a multiphased study on the experiences of Australian nurses and midwives who provide abortion care to people victimised by gend4
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?4
An empirical bioethical examination of Norwegian and British doctors' views of responsibility and (de)prioritization in healthcare4
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction4
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar4
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism4
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Does donor conception violate human dignity?4
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment4
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Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces4
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited4
Biology of kindness: Six daily choices for health, well‐being, and longevity By ImmaculataDe Vivo and DanielLumera, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 264. $24.95 (Paperback); $24.99 (eBook). ISB4
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)3
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Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiD3
Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism3
Moral expertise without moral elitism3
The ethical gene3
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity3
Military medical ethics in contemporary armed conflict: Mobilizing medicine in the pursuit of just warMichael L.GrossOxford University Press:Oxford,2021. 304 pp. ISBN 978‐0190694944. £29.99 (Paperback3
Substituted judgment for the never‐capacitated: Crossing Storar's bridge too far3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws3
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All research that might result in a pandemic must undergo external review3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty3
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”3
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs3
On the morality of vaccination tourism3
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?3
Bioethics reenvisioned: A path towards health justiceKing, Nancy M. P., Henderson, Gail E., Churchill, Larry R.Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 214 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐7159‐83
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults3
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines3
A theory of triage3
The case against death Ingemar Patrick Linden Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780262543163 $45.00 (Paperback); $31.99 (Kindle).3
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The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐193
Islamic virtues and end‐of‐life decisions in clinical practice: A commentary on Mehrunisha Suleman, ‘The Balancing of Virtues—Muslim Perspectives on End of Life Care: Empirical research analysing the 3
The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration3
The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views3
Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?3
Time to rethink assisted dying?3
Therapeutic misunderstandings in modern research2
Patient‐led innovation and global health justice: Open‐source digital health technology for type 1 diabetes care2
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Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies2
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Should the European Medicines Agency consider ageing a disease?2
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The fairness of ventilator allocation during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Is enhancement inherently ableist?2
Steering clear of Akrasia: An integrative review of self‐binding Ulysses Contracts in clinical practice2
Critique of autonomy‐based arguments against legalising assisted dying2
Psilocybin: The most effective moral bio‐enhancer?2
Autonomy and prevention: From conflicting to complementary aims of prenatal screening2
Workplace heating and gender discrimination2
Good principles, badly applied: Logical and ethical inconsistencies in selecting Qatar as a venue for the WCB2
Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions2
Artificial intelligence in clinical decision‐making: Rethinking personal moral responsibility2
A justification of health policy federalism2
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Whose (germ) line is it anyway? Reproductive technologies and kinship2
Euthanasia, consensual homicide, and refusal of treatment2
Are companies ethically justified in offering nonmedical egg freezing as an employee benefit?2
The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity. Ord, Toby. New York: Hachette, 2020. 468 pp. US$30. ISBN 9780316484916 (Hardback).2
Developing a living lab in ethics: Initial issues and observations2
Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics?2
Being a patient among other patients: Refugees' political inclusion through the Austrian solidarity‐based healthcare system2
The ethics of mHealth as a global phenomenon2
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An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers2
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Against epigenetic responsibility: The problem of causality in ‘foetal programming’ science2
Nature‐versus‐nurture considered harmful: Actionability as an alternative tool for understanding the exposome from an ethical perspective2
The ethical indefensibility of heartbeat bills2
Stewardship according to context: Justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations 2
Towards equitable genomics governance in Africa: Guiding principles from theories of global health governance and the African moral theory of Ubuntu2
Religious pluralism and the ethics of healthcare2
On the uneasy alliance between moral bioenhancement and utilitarianism2
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists?2
World Congress of Bioethics in Qatar raises ethical questions2
Religious reasons, natural reasons and ‘exclusionism’: A commentary on Robert Audi and William Smith, ‘Religious Pluralism and the Ethics of Healthcare’2
Epigenetics and Responsibility: Ethical Perspectives By Moorman, Emma; Smajdor, Anna; Cutas, Daniela, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. pp. 145. $159.95 (Hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐2542‐62
Arguments against a “general and permanent” ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A response to Clune‐Taylor2
An imbalanced approach to governance? An analysis of the WHO's position on human genome editing2
Religious preferences in healthcare: A welfarist approach2
Healthspan extension, completeness of life and justice2
A defense of conscientious objection: Why health is integral to the permissibility of medical refusals2
Contraception is not a reductio of Marquis2
Conscientious objections, the nature of medicine, and the need for reformability2
Ethics of Identifying Individuals Involved in HIV Transmission Events by Phylogenetics in Molecular Surveillance2
Is suffering a sufficient legitimation for UTx?2
Autonomy, power, and place: Ethical considerations at the intersections of substance use care, and the sex trade2
Procedural fairness for radiotherapy priority setting in a low resource context2
On Religious Influence in Bioethics: The Limits of Pluriversalism2
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Digitalization, health, and ageing2
The ethical‐legal requirements for adolescent self‐consent to research in sub‐Saharan Africa: A scoping review2
Accounting for future populations in health research1
Can double‐effect reasoning justify lethal organ donation?1
Age‐related hearing loss and “hearables”: An agenda for moral considerations1
Rawls, race, and the 20th‐century bioethics1
The selective deployment of AI in healthcare1
Solidarity and the ethics of exposing others to risk in medical research1
Rethinking the issue of reparations for Black Americans1
Truthfulness in dementia care1
Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction1
How should severity be understood in the context of reproductive genetic carrier screening?1
The promises and limitations of codes of medical ethics as instruments of policy change1
Ectogenesis and gender inequality: Two pathways converge1
Striking a Balance in Reproductive Genetic Counseling: Directiveness for Testing, Non‐Directiveness About Selection1
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Maternal autonomy and prenatal harm1
Another “turn” in bioethics? A plea for methodological continuity1
Patient autonomy and withholding information1
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Old by obsolescence: The paradox of aging in the digital era1
When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health1
Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racism1
IAB 16th World Congress1
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Bioethics challenges in times of war1
‘Mad’, bad or Muslim? The UK's Vulnerability Support Hubs and the nexus of mental health, counterterrorism and racism1
Assisted suicide and the discrimination argument: Can people with mental illness fulfill beneficence‐ and autonomy‐based eligibility criteria?1
The child's best interest in gamete donation1
Accelerated drug approval: Meeting the ethical yardstick1
The imperative of professional dementia care1
A principle‐based framework for disclosing a psychosis risk diagnosis1
Ethical challenges in health care during collective hunger strikes in public or occupied spaces1
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War on All Fronts: A Theory of Health Security Justice By Nicholas G. Evans, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2023. pp. 258. $45.00 paperback. ISBN: 97802625454331
Phenomenology and empowerment in self‐testing apps1
Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage1
Vaccination status and intensive care unit triage: Is it fair to give unvaccinated Covid‐19 patients equal priority?1
Can prolife theorists justify an exception for rape?1
Ethical considerations for biobanks serving underrepresented populations1
Embryo selection, gene editing, and the person‐affecting principle1
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