Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations62
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“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent30
Little Things Mean A Lot28
Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View28
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial25
Reproductive Technologies and family ties22
“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis22
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies21
The commonsense case for common morality21
I Feel I Need to Think about It: A Defence of Affective Moral Enhancement19
Israel's Post‐War Healthcare Obligations18
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children18
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners18
The delivery of health services as resistance17
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications17
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines17
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On the prospects of longtermism16
A defense of ectogenic abortion15
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds15
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn15
Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship15
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics14
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation14
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies13
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness12
On the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza: A Reply to Lederman12
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research12
From Abstinence to Assistance: Antinatalism's Unexpected Endorsement of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence11
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research11
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics11
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm11
Freedom as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic11
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war10
Bioethics, public reason, and religion: The liberalism problem By Fleck, Leonard M., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 75. £17.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 978100907805410
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Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements9
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination9
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye9
Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient9
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour9
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Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion9
Translational bioethics8
Racism in healthcare and bioethics8
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics8
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?8
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity8
Slow codes as ethical disobedience8
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics8
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging7
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Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation7
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation7
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
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection7
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations7
Ethicists and the Gaza War7
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective7
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The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities6
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
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions6
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Religious pluralism in healthcare6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI6
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’6
What is special about conscientious objection?6
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Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice6
How Going to Space Changes the Debate About Radical Human Enhancement6
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
The ethics of precision health5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield5
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Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences5
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research5
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
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care5
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health5
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Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes5
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Does donor conception violate human dignity?5
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death4
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans4
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment4
The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground4
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Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction4
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
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
A critical take on procreative justice4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces4
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 (Paperback4
Why restrict medical effective altruism?4
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?4
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Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited4
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work4
The Credibility of Bioethics After the Gaza Genocide4
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 978‐1‐4696‐7159‐84
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?4
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws3
Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?3
Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice3
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being3
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza3
Thoughtful Accompaniment in Life's Final Stages: Philosophical Practice as a Complement to Ethics Consultation3
Autonomy, power, and place: Ethical considerations at the intersections of substance use care, and the sex trade3
Moral expertise without moral elitism3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐193
‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection3
The ethical gene3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)3
Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities3
The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem3
Workplace heating and gender discrimination3
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Contraception is not a reductio of Marquis3
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
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration3
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar3
Time to rethink assisted dying?3
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism3
A theory of triage3
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Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines3
The case against death Ingemar Patrick Linden Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780262543163 $45.00 (Paperback); $31.99 (Kindle).3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value3
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The ethical indefensibility of heartbeat bills2
Psilocybin: The most effective moral bio‐enhancer?2
All research that might result in a pandemic must undergo external review2
Nature‐versus‐nurture considered harmful: Actionability as an alternative tool for understanding the exposome from an ethical perspective2
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The ethics of mHealth as a global phenomenon2
Euthanasia, consensual homicide, and refusal of treatment2
World Congress of Bioethics in Qatar raises ethical questions2
Classic Pro‐Choice Thought Experiments and African Communitarianism2
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
Conscientious Refuser Accommodation Continues to Undermine Patient Care2
Healthspan extension, completeness of life and justice2
Against epigenetic responsibility: The problem of causality in ‘foetal programming’ science2
Are companies ethically justified in offering nonmedical egg freezing as an employee benefit?2
Autonomy and prevention: From conflicting to complementary aims of prenatal screening2
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists?2
Religious preferences in healthcare: A welfarist approach2
Ethics of Identifying Individuals Involved in HIV Transmission Events by Phylogenetics in Molecular Surveillance2
“Irresponsible Not to Share Such Important Information”: A Narrative of Responsibility That Underpins Familial Disclosure of Genetic Risk in Singapore2
Stewardship according to context: Justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations 2
Pain, Power, and Policing: Emotional Injustice in Healthcare2
Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiD2
An imbalanced approach to governance? An analysis of the WHO's position on human genome editing2
Religious reasons, natural reasons and ‘exclusionism’: A commentary on Robert Audi and William Smith, ‘Religious Pluralism and the Ethics of Healthcare’2
Artificial intelligence in clinical decision‐making: Rethinking personal moral responsibility2
An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers2
IAB 17th World Congress2
Three kinds of suffering and their relative moral significance2
On Religious Influence in Bioethics: The Limits of Pluriversalism2
The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity. Ord, Toby. New York: Hachette, 2020. 468 pp. US$30. ISBN 9780316484916 (Hardback).2
Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies2
Arguments against a “general and permanent” ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A response to Clune‐Taylor2
Developing a living lab in ethics: Initial issues and observations2
Love (Drugs), Happiness, and Morality2
Should the European Medicines Agency consider ageing a disease?2
Critique of autonomy‐based arguments against legalising assisted dying2
Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions2
Is suffering a sufficient legitimation for UTx?2
Steering clear of Akrasia: An integrative review of self‐binding Ulysses Contracts in clinical practice2
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Good principles, badly applied: Logical and ethical inconsistencies in selecting Qatar as a venue for the WCB2
Neurotechnology Governance in the United States: Gaps and Opportunities2
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Patient‐led innovation and global health justice: Open‐source digital health technology for type 1 diabetes care2
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Whose (germ) line is it anyway? Reproductive technologies and kinship2
Religious pluralism and the ethics of healthcare2
Therapeutic misunderstandings in modern research2
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Towards equitable genomics governance in Africa: Guiding principles from theories of global health governance and the African moral theory of Ubuntu2
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
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Assisting, Replicating, or Autonomously Acting? An Ethical Framework for Integrating AI Tools and Technologies in Healthcare2
‘Out of My Hands’: Palestinian Referral Care in East Jerusalem After October 7, 20231
Solidarity and the ethics of exposing others to risk in medical research1
When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health1
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Lessons from Africa: Ubuntu, solidarity, dignity, kinship, and humility1
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Old by obsolescence: The paradox of aging in the digital era1
How should severity be understood in the context of reproductive genetic carrier screening?1
Bioethics challenges in times of war1
The imperative of professional dementia care1
Three Sources of Incapacity in Anorexia Nervosa1
Striking a Balance in Reproductive Genetic Counseling: Directiveness for Testing, Non‐Directiveness About Selection1
Maternal autonomy and prenatal harm1
Facing difficult but unavoidable choices: Donor blood safety and the deferral of men who have sex with men1
IAB 16th World Congress1
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Ectogenesis and gender inequality: Two pathways converge1
Sex and the planet: What opt‐in reproduction could do for the globe By Battin, Margaret Pabst, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 264. $35.00 (Paperback). ISBN 97802625479871
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
IAB Presidential Address: Bioethics, justice, and lessons from a global pandemic1
Non‐Emergent Oncologic Surgery Cancellation During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Risk–Benefit Analysis1
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Embryo selection, gene editing, and the person‐affecting principle1
Patient autonomy and withholding information1
The selective deployment of AI in healthcare1
Ethical considerations for biobanks serving underrepresented populations1
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Another “turn” in bioethics? A plea for methodological continuity1
Ethical challenges in health care during collective hunger strikes in public or occupied spaces1
Age‐related hearing loss and “hearables”: An agenda for moral considerations1
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Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racism1
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Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage1
Death‐row organ donation, revisited1
Patients' preferences for distributing limited government‐funded IVF cycles1
Accounting for future populations in health research1
Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction1
The promises and limitations of codes of medical ethics as instruments of policy change1
Vaccination status and intensive care unit triage: Is it fair to give unvaccinated Covid‐19 patients equal priority?1
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The Anger Paradox: How Angry Should Physicians Be?1
Assisted suicide and the discrimination argument: Can people with mental illness fulfill beneficence‐ and autonomy‐based eligibility criteria?1
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