Journal of Medical Ethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Medical Ethics 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Expanding choice at the end of life103
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy79
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al54
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation48
How low can you go? Justified hesitancy and the ethics of childhood vaccination against COVID-1947
Privacy, autonomy and direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a response to Vayena46
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows35
Differences between sperm sharing and egg sharing are morally relevant33
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics33
In defence of our model for just healthcare systems: why an explicit philosophy is needed in addition to the law, and how Scanlon helps derive just policies32
Defending two dilemmas32
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames31
Flawed reasoning on two dilemmas: a commentary on Baron and Dierckxsens (2021)30
Testimonial injustice: considering caregivers in paediatric behavioural healthcare29
Correction:Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials28
Family experiences with non-therapeutic research on dying patients in the intensive care unit27
Who will receive the last ventilator: why COVID-19 policies should not prioritise healthcare workers26
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan26
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others25
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’25
To be, or not to be? The role of the unconscious in transgender transitioning: identity, autonomy and well-being24
The Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court regarding assisted suicide: a template for pluralistic states?24
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study23
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity22
Lessons fromli: a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics22
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women22
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation22
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation21
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue21
Health disparities from pandemic policies: reply to critics21
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees20
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators20
Non-accommodationism and conscientious objection in healthcare: a response to Robinson20
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments19
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy19
Defending the impairment argument18
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing childrenin uterodoes not imply the wrongness of abortion18
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences18
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice18
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral18
Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model17
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron17
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications17
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen17
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI17
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson17
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering16
Should rare diseases get special treatment?16
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being16
‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund15
The moral obligation to have genetically related children15
Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI15
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox15
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism15
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare14
Why administration of lethal drugs should not be the role of the doctor14
Doctors have an ethical obligation to ask patients about food insecurity: what is stopping us?14
‘How is it possible that at times we can be physicians and at times assistants in suicide?’ Attitudes and experiences of palliative care physicians in respect of the current legal situation of suicide14
Bipolar disorder and competence13
Epistemic injustice, children and mental illness13
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics13
Commentary to ‘Novel drug candidates targeting Alzheimer’s disease: ethical challenges with identifying the relevant patient population’13
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?13
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients12
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA12
For the sake of multifacetedness. Why artificial intelligence patient preference prediction systems shouldn’t be for next of kin12
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings12
Three for me and none for you? An ethical argument for delaying COVID-19 boosters12
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties12
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study11
Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans11
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study11
Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?11
Heritable human genome editing is ‘currently not permitted’, but it is no longer ‘prohibited’: so says the ISSCR11
US adults’ preferences for race-based and place-based prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccines11
Looking back and looking forward11
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death11
When biological ageing is desirable? A reply to García-Barranqueroet al10
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response10
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers: a response to commentaries10
The ethics of semantics in medicine10
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor10
Care for well-being or respect for dignity? A commentary on Soofi’s ‘what moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?’10
A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice10
Reassessing the role of informed decision-making in cardiac xenotransplantation10
Where the ethical action also is: a response to Hardman and Hutchinson10
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: responding to critics10
Using meconium to establish prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK: ethical, legal and social considerations10
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?10
Intimacy for older adults in long-term care: a need, a right, a privilege—or a kind of care?10
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry9
Expanding health justice to consider the environment: how can bioethics avoid reinforcing epistemic injustice?9
Placement of long-acting reversible contraception for minors who are mothers should not require parental consent9
Digital twins for trans people in healthcare: queer, phenomenological and bioethical considerations9
Using coercion in mental disorders or risking the patient’s death? An analysis of the protocols of a clinical ethics committee and a derived decision algorithm9
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity9
Non-voluntary BCI explantation: assessing possible neurorights violations in light of contrasting mental ontologies9
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction9
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes8
Defending deference: author’s response to commentaries8
Polygenic risk scores and embryonic screening: considerations for regulation8
Identity-relative paternalism fails to achieve its apparent goal8
Global health and global governance of emerging biomedical technologies8
Subhumans, human flourishing and abortion: a reply to Räsänen8
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity8
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries8
Moral parenthood: not gestational8
Epistemic justice in bioethics: interculturality and the possibility of reparations8
Assent: going beyond acknowledgement for fair inclusion8
My body, still my choice: an objection to Hendricks on abortion8
Fetal reduction, moral permissibility and the all or nothing problem8
Incentivising civility in clinical environments8
Concepts in African philosophy to improve bioethics8
PDMP causes more than just testimonial injustice8
Tale of two countries: attitudes towards older persons in Italy and Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic as seen through the looking-glass of the media8
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency8
This little piggy can’t leave the open market8
Clinical law: what do clinicians want to know? The demography of clinical law8
Surrogate uncertainty: who decides?7
Assessing the performance of ChatGPT in bioethics: a large language model’s moral compass in medicine7
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders7
Loneliness at the age of COVID-197
Risk-relativity is still a nonsense7
Expanded terminal sedation: too removed from real-world practice7
Scaffolding informed consent7
The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care7
Engagement without entanglement: a framework for non-sexual patient–physician boundaries7
Ethical problems with kindness in healthcare7
Bringing context into ethical discussion: what, when and who?7
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism7
Pregnancy loss in the context of AAPT: speculation over substance?7
Broadening the debate: the future of JME feature articles7
Manufacturing safer medics7
It is not about autonomy: realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI preference predictors in healthcare7
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids7
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy7
Vaccine mandates need a clear rationale to identify which exemptions are appropriate7
Igwebuike: an African concept for an inclusive medical ethics7
A Sleight of Hand7
Broad concepts and messy realities: optimising the application of mental capacity criteria6
Give incivility a chance6
Is ageing still undesirable? A reply to Räsänen6
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust6
Charting the ethical landscape of generative AI-augmented clinical documentation6
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?6
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy6
What makes a medical intervention invasive?6
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture: towards a systems approach to health and climate6
Shibumi: acerbic beauty of the aged face6
How is clinical ethics reasoning done in practice? A review of the empirical literature6
Extending patient-centred communication to non-speaking intellectually disabled persons6
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau6
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action6
Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich6
AI-powered psychotherapy as a model for improving disclosure and substitute judgment6
Need for greater post-trial support for clinical trial participants assessing high-risk, irreversible treatments6
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate6
Ethics briefings6
Defining the undefinable: the black box problem in healthcare artificial intelligence6
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests6
Double bad luck: Should rare diseases get special treatment?6
Centring race, deprivation, and disease severity in healthcare priority setting6
Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof5
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues5
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins5
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications5
Informed decision-making in labour: action required5
COVID-19 conscience tracing: mapping the moral distances of coronavirus5
Directed and conditional uterus donation5
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments5
Why we should stop using animal-derived products on patients without their consent5
Ethics briefing5
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction5
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour5
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate5
Assessing the impact of information on patient attitudes toward artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI/CDS): a pilot web-based SMART vignette study5
Pretending to care5
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller5
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics5
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power5
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency5
Mature minors and gender dysphoria: a matter for clinicians not courts5
In the room when it happens5
Data for sale: trust, confidence and sharing health data with commercial companies5
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent5
Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care5
Lord Sumption and the values of life, liberty and security: before and since the COVID-19 outbreak5
Constructing a South Asian cardiovascular disease: a qualitative analysis on how researchers study cardiovascular disease in South Asians5
Genetic discrimination in life insurance: a human rights issue5
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation4
Bioethics and the value of disagreement4
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics4
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia4
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?4
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability4
How do US orthopaedic surgeons view placebo-controlled surgical trials? A pilot online survey study4
Protecting privacy in mandatory reporting of infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from a developing country4
Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making4
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive4
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing4
Where the ethical action is4
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future4
Autonomy is not a sufficient basis for analysing the choice for medical assistance in dying in unjust conditions: in favour of a dignity-based approach4
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition4
Justifiable discrimination? on Cameron et al’s proportionality test4
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal4
Emotions and affects: the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of understanding risk attitudes in medical decision-making4
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’4
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand4
Does the General Medical Council’s 2020 guidance on consent advance on its 2008 guidance?4
First among equals? Adaptive preferences and the limits of autonomy in medical ethics4
Self-harm in immigration detention: political, not (just) medical4
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion4
Genetic information, discrimination, philosophical pluralism and politics4
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making4
Should coronavirus policies remain in place to prevent future paediatric influenza deaths?4
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research4
‘Empathy counterbalancing’ to mitigate the ‘identified victim effect’? Ethical reflections on cognitive debiasing strategies to increase support for healthcare priority setting4
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey4
Correction:Guest editorial: Care not criminalisation; reform of British abortion law is long overdue4
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’4
Ethics briefing4
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model4
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?4
Abortion and the veil of ignorance: a response to Minehan4
Misalignments of values and preferences: Finding an ideal elder care arrangement4
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology4
Civility and scientific excellence: two dimensions of medical professionalism4
A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution4
Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences of an ageing world4
Age—not sex or gender—makes the case of Ellie Anderson Complex4
Facial recognition law in China4
Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide4
No consent for brain death testing4
Futility: a perennial issue for medical ethics4
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means4
Dynamic consent: a royal road to research consent?4
Research ethics and public trust in vaccines: the case of COVID-19 challenge trials3
Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia3
Navigating the ambiguity of invasiveness: is it warranted? A response to De Marcoet al3
ICoME and the moral significance of telemedicine3
Root causes of organisational failure: look up, not down3
It’s still about ethics, isn’t it?3
Wrongful discrimination against non-pregnant people?3
Reconsidering reinterpretation: response to commentaries3
Prioritisation for therapies based on a disorder’s severity: ethics and practicality3
Guerrilla eugenics: gene drives in heritable human genome editing3
Should medicine be colour blind?3
Discussion of off-target and tentative genomic findings may sometimes be necessary to allow evaluation of their clinical significance3
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