Journal of Medical Ethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Medical Ethics is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Expanding choice at the end of life87
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy57
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al56
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation53
How low can you go? Justified hesitancy and the ethics of childhood vaccination against COVID-1952
Privacy, autonomy and direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a response to Vayena39
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows36
Differences between sperm sharing and egg sharing are morally relevant35
Defending two dilemmas34
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics34
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 policies33
Testimonial injustice: considering caregivers in paediatric behavioural healthcare32
Flawed reasoning on two dilemmas: a commentary on Baron and Dierckxsens (2021)32
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan29
Correction:Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials29
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’27
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others25
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames25
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women25
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation25
Lessons fromli: a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics25
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study25
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation23
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue23
Health disparities from pandemic policies: reply to critics22
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators21
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees21
Reassessing onco-exceptionalism: equity and resource allocation in immunotherapeutic cancer treatments21
Non-accommodationism and conscientious objection in healthcare: a response to Robinson21
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral20
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy20
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing childrenin uterodoes not imply the wrongness of abortion20
Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice20
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences19
Defending the impairment argument19
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson18
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen17
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI17
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron17
Should rare diseases get special treatment?16
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity16
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications16
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering15
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism15
Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model15
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being15
‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund14
The moral obligation to have genetically related children14
Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI14
Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?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 suicide13
Bipolar disorder and competence13
US adults’ preferences for race-based and place-based prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccines13
Nrima- a particular Javanese value and its impact on healthcare13
Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: the need for multigenerational bioethics13
Why administration of lethal drugs should not be the role of the doctor13
Commentary to ‘Novel drug candidates targeting Alzheimer’s disease: ethical challenges with identifying the relevant patient population’12
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
Navigating climate responsibility: a critical examination of healthcare professionals’ moral duties11
Beyond coercion: reframing the influencing other in medically assisted death11
Looking back and looking forward11
Three for me and none for you? An ethical argument for delaying COVID-19 boosters11
Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients11
Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study11
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox11
Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans11
Returning research results to individuals who are incarcerated in the USA11
To what extent should doctors communicate diagnostic uncertainty with their patients? An empirical ethics vignette 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
The ethics of semantics in medicine10
Where the ethical action also is: a response to Hardman and Hutchinson10
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response10
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: responding to critics10
When biological ageing is desirable? A reply to García-Barranqueroet al10
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
Reassessing the role of informed decision-making in cardiac xenotransplantation9
Digital twins for trans people in healthcare: queer, phenomenological and bioethical considerations9
Choosing death in unjust conditions: hope, autonomy and harm reduction9
A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice9
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers: a response to commentaries9
Non-voluntary BCI explantation: assessing possible neurorights violations in light of contrasting mental ontologies9
Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry9
Algorithms advise, humans decide: the evidential role of the patient preference predictor9
Using meconium to establish prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK: ethical, legal and social considerations9
Expanding health justice to consider the environment: how can bioethics avoid reinforcing epistemic injustice?9
Sharing online clinical notes with patients: implications for nocebo effects and health equity9
Non-clinical uses of antipsychotics in resource-constrained long-term care facilities: ethically justifiable as lesser of two evils?9
PDMP causes more than just testimonial injustice8
Reification and assent in research involving those who lack capacity8
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries8
Ethics briefing8
Subhumans, human flourishing and abortion: a reply to Räsänen8
Global health and global governance of emerging biomedical technologies8
Epistemic justice in bioethics: interculturality and the possibility of reparations8
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes8
Incentivising civility in clinical environments8
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
A qualitative study of true self judgments, epistemic access, and medical decision-making8
This little piggy can’t leave the open market8
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency8
My body, still my choice: an objection to Hendricks on abortion8
Fetal reduction, moral permissibility and the all or nothing problem8
Defending deference: author’s response to commentaries8
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 algorithm8
Assent: going beyond acknowledgement for fair inclusion8
Clinical law: what do clinicians want to know? The demography of clinical law8
Identity-relative paternalism fails to achieve its apparent goal8
Concepts in African philosophy to improve bioethics7
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy7
Bearing witness and the ethical place of the medical student7
Manufacturing safer medics7
Polygenic risk scores and embryonic screening: considerations for regulation7
It is not about autonomy: realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI preference predictors in healthcare7
Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders7
What moral work can Nussbaum’s account of human dignity do in the context of dementia care?7
Assessing the performance of ChatGPT in bioethics: a large language model’s moral compass in medicine7
Moral parenthood: not gestational7
Understanding individualised genetic interventions as research-treatment hybrids7
The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care7
Focusing attention on physicians’ climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture: towards a systems approach to health and climate6
Loneliness at the age of COVID-196
Extending patient-centred communication to non-speaking intellectually disabled persons6
A Sleight of Hand6
Shibumi: acerbic beauty of the aged face6
Vaccine mandates need a clear rationale to identify which exemptions are appropriate6
Ethics briefings6
Charting the ethical landscape of generative AI-augmented clinical documentation6
Broad concepts and messy realities: optimising the application of mental capacity criteria6
Is ageing still undesirable? A reply to Räsänen6
How is clinical ethics reasoning done in practice? A review of the empirical literature6
Expanded terminal sedation: too removed from real-world practice6
Pregnancy loss in the context of AAPT: speculation over substance?6
The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism6
Broadening the debate: the future of JME feature articles6
Igwebuike: an African concept for an inclusive medical ethics6
What makes a medical intervention invasive?6
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
Scaffolding informed consent6
Bringing context into ethical discussion: what, when and who?6
Risk-relativity is still a nonsense6
Ethical problems with kindness in healthcare6
Trust and the Goldacre Review: why trusted research environments are not about trust6
Double bad luck: Should rare diseases get special treatment?5
Informed decision-making in labour: action required5
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins5
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction5
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany: current controversies and developments5
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues5
Directed and conditional uterus donation5
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy5
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?5
Give incivility a chance5
Pretending to care5
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power5
Something old, something new? The Journal of Medical Ethics turns 505
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour5
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate5
Constructing a South Asian cardiovascular disease: a qualitative analysis on how researchers study cardiovascular disease in South Asians5
Centring race, deprivation, and disease severity in healthcare priority setting5
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests5
Does normothermic regional perfusion harm donors after circulatory death?5
Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care5
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics5
Assessing the impact of information on patient attitudes toward artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI/CDS): a pilot web-based SMART vignette study5
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau5
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency5
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent5
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller5
Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich5
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action5
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate5
Impermissibility of euthanasia and self-regarding duties to stay alive4
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
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing4
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’4
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?4
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion4
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?4
Ethical reflection of Chinese scientists on the dual-use concerns of emerging medical biotechnology4
In the room when it happens4
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition4
Bioethics and the value of disagreement4
Mature minors and gender dysphoria: a matter for clinicians not courts4
On the risks of depersonalizing consent and the safe implementation of LLMs in medical decision-making4
Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making4
Protecting privacy in mandatory reporting of infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from a developing country4
Emotions and affects: the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of understanding risk attitudes in medical decision-making4
Correction:Guest editorial: Care not criminalisation; reform of British abortion law is long overdue4
Should coronavirus policies remain in place to prevent future paediatric influenza deaths?4
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means4
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability4
Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research4
Review of research ethics guidelines on payment of healthy volunteers4
Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences of an ageing world4
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model4
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’4
Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof4
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal4
Misalignments of values and preferences: Finding an ideal elder care arrangement4
Age—not sex or gender—makes the case of Ellie Anderson Complex4
‘Empathy counterbalancing’ to mitigate the ‘identified victim effect’? Ethical reflections on cognitive debiasing strategies to increase support for healthcare priority setting4
Ethics briefing4
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand4
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey4
No consent for brain death testing4
Facial recognition law in China4
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia4
First among equals? Adaptive preferences and the limits of autonomy in medical ethics4
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation4
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics4
Does the General Medical Council’s 2020 guidance on consent advance on its 2008 guidance?4
Ethics briefing4
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications4
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making4
Reviewing past and present consent practices in unplanned obstetric interventions: an eye towards the future4
Research ethics and public trust in vaccines: the case of COVID-19 challenge trials3
Root causes of organisational failure: look up, not down3
Autonomy versus exclusion in xenotransplantation trials3
Ethics of digital twins: four challenges3
Capacity for life force, communality, and the scope of cross-cultural bioethics: additional thoughts on African Life Force and the Permissibility of Euthanasia3
When understanding fails: how diverging norms in medicine and research led to informed consent failures during the pandemic3
Acknowledging the dual-interest gestationalist approach3
Wrongful discrimination against non-pregnant people?3
Content analysis, astrology and my 20 years as JME editor3
What is fair? Ethical analysis of triage criteria and disability rights during the COVID-19 pandemic and the German legislation3
Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia3
It’s still about ethics, isn’t it?3
Discussion of off-target and tentative genomic findings may sometimes be necessary to allow evaluation of their clinical significance3
Clinicians’ criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience3
Reconsidering reinterpretation: response to commentaries3
Materialising and fostering organisational morisprudence through ethics support tools3
There is no ‘I’ in team, but there are two in civil3
Navigating the ambiguity of invasiveness: is it warranted? A response to De Marcoet al3
Should medicine be colour blind?3
Towards organisational quality in ethics through patternsandprocess3
Rethinking medical invasiveness in the clinical encounter3
Prioritisation for therapies based on a disorder’s severity: ethics and practicality3
Guerrilla eugenics: gene drives in heritable human genome editing3
Argument for allowing first-in-human cardiac xenotransplantation clinical trials in paediatric patients3
Synthetic DNA and mitochondrial donation: no need for donor eggs?3
On interpreters: the ethics of interpreter use in general practice3
Dying in a terminal society: a response to Maung3
The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies3
Gestation most certainly matters, but it need not involve an ‘emotional relationship’3
Lessons learned from the Last Gift study: ethical and practical challenges faced while conducting HIV cure-related research at the end of life3
‘Can you hear me?’: communication, relationship and ethics in video-based telepsychiatric consultations3
The promise of xenotransplantation: a challenge3
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