Journal of Medical Ethics

Article	Citations
Expanding choice at the end of life	113
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy	84
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al	76
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’	57
Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond	47
Missing voices: why youth perspectives are essential for Ubuntu bioethics in the context of HIV testing	43
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others	42
Against the biological account of death	40
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments and should be confined to clinical trials	40
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation	40
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics	39
Manipulating embryogenesis and testing for potential: two real problems for the regulation of stem cell-based embryo models	39
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames	37
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study	36
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan	34
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation	34
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows	31
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women	30
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral	29
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue	28
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications	27
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism	26
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences	26
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being	25
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation	24

Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators	24
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees	24
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity	24
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI	23
Defending the impairment argument	23
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing children in utero does not imply the wrongness of abortion	22
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice	21
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron	21
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson	21
Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model	20
Lessons from li : a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics	20
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy	20
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering	19
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments	19
Dead donor rule unfazed: a response to Masek	18
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?	17
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen	17
Unexpecting: abortion, informed consent and transformative experiences	16
Balancing public health and individual autonomy: a study of China’s vaccination policy	16
Phenomenology of pregnancy: moral consequences for abortion	16
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients	16
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox	16
Why administration of lethal drugs should not be the role of the doctor	15
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings	15
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics	15
Bipolar disorder and competence	14
‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund	14
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare	14
How can non-inferiority studies with mortality end points be ethically justified?	14
The moral obligation to have genetically related children	14
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA	14
Digital twin ethics, physiological constraints and real-time feedback	14
Consent and consents in contemporary healthcare	14
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study	13
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette study	13
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death	13
‘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 suicide	13
Between intention and side effect: evaluation of consciousness diminution under the doctrine of double effect	12
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties	12
When biological ageing is desirable? A reply to García-Barranqueroet al	12
Guest editorial: Accommodating cultural differences in the International Conference of Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice guidelines	12
For the sake of multifacetedness. Why artificial intelligence patient preference prediction systems shouldn’t be for next of kin	12
A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice	12
Clinicians and AI use: where is the professional guidance?	12
Dead donor rule: death, dysfunction and bodily respect	12
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response	12
Looking back and looking forward	12
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers: a response to commentaries	11
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor	11
Is the integrated/non-integrated distinction for embryo models really obsolete?	11

Non-voluntary BCI explantation: assessing possible neurorights violations in light of contrasting mental ontologies	11
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry	11
The boycott of the Israeli Medical Association by the British Medical Association: a critical appraisal	11
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: responding to critics	11
Reassessing the role of informed decision-making in cardiac xenotransplantation	11
In vitro fertilisation mix-ups and contested parenthood	11
No jab, no access? Is differential treatment based on vaccination (wrongfully) discriminatory?	11
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?	11
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?’	11
Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans	11
Using meconium to establish prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK: ethical, legal and social considerations	11
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency	10
Expanding health justice to consider the environment: how can bioethics avoid reinforcing epistemic injustice?	10
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity	10
Concepts in African philosophy to improve bioethics	10
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries	10
Global health and global governance of emerging biomedical technologies	10
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction	10
How ‘non-invasive’ is non-invasive prenatal testing?	10
My body, still my choice: an objection to Hendricks on abortion	10
Fetal reduction, moral permissibility and the all or nothing problem	10
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes	10
Digital twins for trans people in healthcare: queer, phenomenological and bioethical considerations	10
When to create embryos or organoids for research	10
Javanese ethical concepts in health and healing	9
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy	9
Ethics briefing	9
This little piggy can’t leave the open market	9
Incentivising civility in clinical environments	9
Bearing witness and the ethical place of the medical student	9
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins?	9
PDMP causes more than just testimonial injustice	9
Subhumans, human flourishing and abortion: a reply to Räsänen	9
Autonomy-centred assisted death laws still avoid expressivism	9
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids	9
Defending deference: author’s response to commentaries	9
Identity-relative paternalism fails to achieve its apparent goal	9
Epistemic justice in bioethics: interculturality and the possibility of reparations	9
Assent: going beyond acknowledgement for fair inclusion	9
Assessing the performance of ChatGPT in bioethics: a large language model’s moral compass in medicine	8
Reconsidering double-effect sedation: clinical perspectives beyond intentions	8
Broadening the debate: the future of JME feature articles	8
A qualitative study of true self judgments, epistemic access, and medical decision-making	8
Aligning goals, not perceptions: making space for illness perception in paediatric decision-making	8
Polygenic risk scores and embryonic screening: considerations for regulation	8
Ethics briefings	8
Vaccine mandates need a clear rationale to identify which exemptions are appropriate	8
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 algorithm	8
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?	8
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders	8
Manufacturing safer medics	8
It is not about autonomy: realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI preference predictors in healthcare	8
Moral parenthood: not gestational	8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity	8
Does normothermic regional perfusion harm donors after circulatory death?	7
Expanded terminal sedation: too removed from real-world practice	7
Respecting the right to refuse: is decision-making capacity disproportionately challenged in patients declining medical care in order to treat?	7
Loneliness at the age of COVID-19	7
Beyond individual autonomy: relational dimensions of the right not to know	7
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism	7
Need for greater post-trial support for clinical trial participants assessing high-risk, irreversible treatments	7
Risk-relativity is still a nonsense	7
Pregnancy loss in the context of AAPT: speculation over substance?	7
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture: towards a systems approach to health and climate	7
The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care	7
Ethical problems with kindness in healthcare	7
What makes a medical intervention invasive?	7
Trans embodiment out of line: a queer phenomenological reflection on digital twins in healthcare	7
Bringing context into ethical discussion: what, when and who?	7
A Sleight of Hand	7
Shibumi: acerbic beauty of the aged face	7
Is ageing still undesirable? A reply to Räsänen	7
Give incivility a chance	7
From AI SIM to AI twinning: a spectrum of digital representations of persons	7
Embryo models and the regulatory void: ethical imperatives before legal action	6
Keep calm and think twice: methodological issues with the recommendations by Giordano (2025)	6
Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich	6
Scaffolding informed consent	6
Beyond instrumental rationality: a thicker account of intention in double-effect sedation	6
How is clinical ethics reasoning done in practice? A review of the empirical literature	6

The disciplined imagination of medical ethics	6
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller	6
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau	6
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction	6
Informed decision-making in labour: action required	6
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power	6
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust	6
AI-powered psychotherapy as a model for improving disclosure and substitute judgment	6
Extending patient-centred communication to non-speaking intellectually disabled persons	6
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate	6
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour	6
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments	6
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy	6
Something old, something new? The Journal of Medical Ethics turns 50	6
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent	6
Pretending to care	6
What if all participants get the same treatment? An ethical perspective on single arm trials	6
Charting the ethical landscape of generative AI-augmented clinical documentation	6
Igwebuike: an African concept for an inclusive medical ethics	6
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency	6
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues	6
Problems with adversarial cooperation: identity, representation and bias	6
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing	5
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology	5
No consent for brain death testing	5
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means	5
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’	5
Pragmatic defence of the register system: strengthening Clarke’s consequentialist case for managing conscientious objection	5
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications	5
Reversibility and indefinite treatment: implications for consent and widening inequalities – a response to Ryan and Savulescu	5
Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care	5
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand	5
On the risks of depersonalizing consent and the safe implementation of LLMs in medical decision-making	5
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal	5
Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon	5
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion	5
Keep calm but do not carry on: ethical issues with the recommendations made by the Cass Review—Giordano response to the commentaries	5
Ethics briefing	5
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins	5
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action	5
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests	5
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability	5
Misalignments of values and preferences: Finding an ideal elder care arrangement	5
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future	5
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia	5
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation	5
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics	5
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’	5
Assessing the impact of information on patient attitudes toward artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI/CDS): a pilot web-based SMART vignette study	5
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate	5
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?	5
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition	5
Ethics briefing	5
Environmental sustainability and the paradox of prevention	4
Civility and scientific excellence: two dimensions of medical professionalism	4
Keeping the humans in the loop: why surrogate human decision-makers remain necessary with personalised patient preference predictors (P4) use	4
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?	4
Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia	4
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model	4
Towards an environmentally sensitive healthcare ethics: ten tasks and one model	4
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research	4
CESS process and outcome: expanding the theoretical understanding of CESS and its impact on QI	4
Autonomy is not a sufficient basis for analysing the choice for medical assistance in dying in unjust conditions: in favour of a dignity-based approach	4
Rewriting the will: Autonomy and pharmacological desire modification in semaglutide use	4
Panem, corticoids and circenses: the ethical fallout of Enhanced Games	4
Authors meet critics: What is a person? Untapped insights from Africa	4
Transformative experience and the limits of legal consent: a response to Räsänen	4
Diversity, polarisation and reason: how we can make progress in bioethics	4
Towards organisational quality in ethics through patternsandprocess	4
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive	4
Dynamic consent: a royal road to research consent?	4
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making	4
(Un)equal treatment in the ‘tobacco-free generation’	4
Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making	4
Professional virtue of civility: responding to commentaries	4
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey	4
How do US orthopaedic surgeons view placebo-controlled surgical trials? A pilot online survey study	4
Research involving the recently deceased: ethics questions that must be answered	4
Where is knowledge from the global South? An account of epistemic justice for a global bioethics	4
Ethical preparedness and developments in genomic healthcare	4
The Supreme Court’s decision inMcCulloch v Forth Valley Health Board: Does it condone healthcare injustice?	4
Why pregnancy is not a disease: a critique from the perspective of biological trade-offs	4
Content analysis, astrology and my 20 years as JME editor	4
Bioethics and the value of disagreement	4
Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide	4
Review of research ethics guidelines on payment of healthy volunteers	4
Ubuntu as a complementary perspective for addressing epistemic (in)justice in medical machine learning	4
When is suicide a public health issue?	4
Can the courts be viewed as an appropriate vehicle to settle clinical unease?	4
Are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?	4
Ethically defensible executions? A reply to Daniel Rodger and coauthors	4
The promise of xenotransplantation: a challenge	4
Reply: The ethics of Ozempic and Wegovy	4
Time-sensitive hybrid model for parent allocation in IVF embryo mix-ups	4
The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies	4