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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations127
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Respecting Rights Without Sanctioning Irrationality26
Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View23
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications23
Little Things Mean A Lot23
The commonsense case for common morality23
Israel's Post‐War Healthcare Obligations22
On the prospects of longtermism22
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies21
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines21
I Feel I Need to Think about It: A Defence of Affective Moral Enhancement21
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners21
The delivery of health services as resistance20
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent18
Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?17
Reproductive Technologies and family ties17
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds16
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Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial16
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness14
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics14
A defense of ectogenic abortion14
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research13
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation13
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die11
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
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies10
Bioethics, public reason, and religion: The liberalism problem By Fleck, Leonard M., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 75. £17.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 978100907805410
On the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza: A Reply to Lederman10
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war10
Freedom as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic10
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn10
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics10
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Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion9
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Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient8
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour8
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics8
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Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements8
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination8
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity7
Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain By WalterGlannon, Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2025. 282 pp. USA$75.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐26‐255352‐07
Slow codes as ethical disobedience7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation7
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What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?7
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye7
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations7
Translational bioethics7
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics7
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers7
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities7
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective7
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice6
How Going to Space Changes the Debate About Radical Human Enhancement6
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Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation6
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’6
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Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI6
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities6
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/$20.6
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection6
Facing Assisted Dying Requests Where It Is Illegal: Lessons From Clinical Ethics Consultations6
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The ethics of precision health6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing6
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Ethicists and the Gaza War6
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Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield5
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Patient autonomy in the context of digital health5
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
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 dying5
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction5
A Human Rights‐Based and Relational Justice Approach to Assisted Reproduction in Spain5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study5
Religious pluralism in healthcare5
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A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care5
The Role of Medical Ethics in Voluntary Assisted Dying: A Regulatory Space Analysis4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces4
A critical take on procreative justice4
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Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment4
“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research4
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work4
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
The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground4
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
Against Moral Panic and Citation Fiction: A Critique of “Panem, Corticoids and Circenses” and a Proposal for Editorial Gatekeeping on Reference Integrity4
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?4
Academic Integrity Is Coming Increasingly Under Attack From Academics Using AI Tools as a Short‐Cut to Publications4
Why It Is Wrong to Promote Alpha‐Gal Syndrome: A Response to Crutchfield and Hereth4
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
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Why restrict medical effective altruism?4
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited4
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans4
Does donor conception violate human dignity?4
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Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences4
Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes4
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
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?4
The case against death Ingemar Patrick Linden Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780262543163 $45.00 (Paperback); $31.99 (Kindle).3
Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism3
Thoughtful Accompaniment in Life's Final Stages: Philosophical Practice as a Complement to Ethics Consultation3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐193
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration3
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity3
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?3
Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem3
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Workplace heating and gender discrimination3
Response Paper: A Critical Review of Sprengholz's Public Preferences Regarding Slow Codes in Critical Care3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?3
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 Credibility of Bioethics After the Gaza Genocide3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value3
Time to rethink assisted dying?3
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)3
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism3
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Stewardship according to context: Justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations 3
All research that might result in a pandemic must undergo external review3
Contraception is not a reductio of Marquis3
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines3
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The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty3
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs3
‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults3
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?3
A theory of triage3
Psilocybin: The most effective moral bio‐enhancer?3
Good principles, badly applied: Logical and ethical inconsistencies in selecting Qatar as a venue for the WCB3
Ethics of Identifying Individuals Involved in HIV Transmission Events by Phylogenetics in Molecular Surveillance2
Assisting, Replicating, or Autonomously Acting? An Ethical Framework for Integrating AI Tools and Technologies in Healthcare2
Autonomy, power, and place: Ethical considerations at the intersections of substance use care, and the sex trade2
Are companies ethically justified in offering nonmedical egg freezing as an employee benefit?2
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists?2
Whose (germ) line is it anyway? Reproductive technologies and kinship2
The ethics of mHealth as a global phenomenon2
On Religious Influence in Bioethics: The Limits of Pluriversalism2
An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers2
Being a patient among other patients: Refugees' political inclusion through the Austrian solidarity‐based healthcare system2
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Pain, Power, and Policing: Emotional Injustice in Healthcare2
The Ethics of Wegovy in Pediatric Mental Health2
Neurotechnology Governance in the United States: Gaps and Opportunities2
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Healthspan extension, completeness of life and justice2
Against epigenetic responsibility: The problem of causality in ‘foetal programming’ science2
Conscientious Refuser Accommodation Continues to Undermine Patient Care2
The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity. Ord, Toby. New York: Hachette, 2020. 468 pp. US$30. ISBN 9780316484916 (Hardback).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
Is Hume's Law a valid argument against empirical bioethics?2
Should the European Medicines Agency consider ageing a disease?2
Is suffering a sufficient legitimation for UTx?2
Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies2
Religious preferences in healthcare: A welfarist approach2
Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiD2
The ethical indefensibility of heartbeat bills2
“Irresponsible Not to Share Such Important Information”: A Narrative of Responsibility That Underpins Familial Disclosure of Genetic Risk in Singapore2
Nature‐versus‐nurture considered harmful: Actionability as an alternative tool for understanding the exposome from an ethical perspective2
Autonomy and prevention: From conflicting to complementary aims of prenatal screening2
Steering clear of Akrasia: An integrative review of self‐binding Ulysses Contracts in clinical practice2
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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
Love (Drugs), Happiness, and Morality2
Developing a living lab in ethics: Initial issues and observations2
Critique of autonomy‐based arguments against legalising assisted dying2
Therapeutic misunderstandings in modern research2
What Is Space Bioethics?2
Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions2
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The emergence and use of expanded carrier screening in gamete donation: A new form of repro‐genetic selection1
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
Bioethics challenges in times of war1
How should severity be understood in the context of reproductive genetic carrier screening?1
Vaccination status and intensive care unit triage: Is it fair to give unvaccinated Covid‐19 patients equal priority?1
Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage1
The promises and limitations of codes of medical ethics as instruments of policy change1
Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction1
Accounting for future populations in health research1
The Role of Medical Ethics in the Practices of Assisted Dying1
A principle‐based framework for disclosing a psychosis risk diagnosis1
Why Antinatalism and Procreative Beneficence Do Not Mix1
Rawls, race, and the 20th‐century bioethics1
IAB 16th World Congress1
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Patient Participation in Clinical Ethics Interventions: A Requirement of Procedural and Epistemic Justice1
Ectogenesis and gender inequality: Two pathways converge1
Three Sources of Incapacity in Anorexia Nervosa1
Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)1
Assisted suicide and the discrimination argument: Can people with mental illness fulfill beneficence‐ and autonomy‐based eligibility criteria?1
The imperative of professional dementia care1
Striking a Balance in Reproductive Genetic Counseling: Directiveness for Testing, Non‐Directiveness About Selection1
Non‐Emergent Oncologic Surgery Cancellation During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Risk–Benefit Analysis1
Patient autonomy and withholding information1
Old by obsolescence: The paradox of aging in the digital era1
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Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racism1
Reframing “Good Death” in Taiwan: An Ethical Review of Legislation on Deceased Organ Donation1
A paradigm shift?—On the ethics of medical large language models1
Affirmative action in healthcare resource allocation: Vaccines, ventilators and race1
Ethical considerations for biobanks serving underrepresented populations1
Solidarity and the ethics of exposing others to risk in medical research1
Equity and COVID‐19 treatment allocation: A questionable criterion1
When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health1
Can a human right to good mental health be justified?1
Ethical challenges in health care during collective hunger strikes in public or occupied spaces1
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Ethical considerations for non‐procreative uterus transplantation1
Vulnerability in Research Ethics?1
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‘Out of My Hands’: Palestinian Referral Care in East Jerusalem After October 7, 20231
Age‐related hearing loss and “hearables”: An agenda for moral considerations1
Embryo selection, gene editing, and the person‐affecting principle1
Purely performative resuscitation: Treating the patient as an object1
Another “turn” in bioethics? A plea for methodological continuity1
Maternal autonomy and prenatal harm1
The selective deployment of AI in healthcare1
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