Journal of Medical Ethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Medical Ethics is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health94
Testimonial injustice: considering caregivers in paediatric behavioural healthcare68
Genetic information, insurance and a pluralistic approach to justice60
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world49
Language matters: the ‘digital twin’ metaphor in health and medicine48
COVID-19 vaccines: a look at the ethics of the clinical research involving children44
Patients, clinicians and open notes: information blocking as a case of epistemic injustice44
Double bad luck: Should rare diseases get special treatment?43
Feasibility, comprehension and applicability of broad consent in the emergency department: an exploratory mixed-methods study31
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications31
‘Chết phải toàn thây’: belief in Vietnamese culture and its impact on organ donation30
Ethics briefing – December 202130
Open notes: Unintended consequences and teachable moments29
Supplementing the capabilities approach28
Informed decision-making in labour: action required28
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others27
Does identity-relative paternalism prohibit (future) self-sacrifice? A reply to Wilkinson26
Revisiting the comparison between healthcare strikes and just war25
On Wilkinson: unpacking Parfit, paternalism and the primacy of autonomy in contemporary bioethics25
Medical choices and changing selves24
Meta-surrogate decision making and artificial intelligence24
Future persons, future attributes and potential persons: commentary on Savulescu and colleagues24
Examining right to try practices23
WHO’s allocation framework for COVAX: is it fair?22
Dual loyalty conflict in Australian immigration detention: a struggle of ideology and power21
Artificial intelligence paternalism21
How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate21
UK doctors’ strikes 2023: not only justified but, arguably, supererogatory21
Rare and common diseases should be treated equally and why the article by de Magalhaes somewhat misses its’ mark20
Hownotto count the health benefits of family planning19
Equitable resource allocation in health emergencies: addressing racial disparities and ethical dilemmas19
How is COVID-19 changing the ways doctors make end-of-life decisions?19
Understanding genetic justice in the post-enhanced world: a reply to Sinead Prince18
Data for sale: trust, confidence and sharing health data with commercial companies18
Relational epistemic humility in the clinical encounter18
Storing paediatric genomic data for sequential interrogation across the lifespan17
Generational tobacco ban: questions of consistency17
Physician assessment, comparative abilities and artificial intelligence: implications for informed consent17
Reflections of methodological and ethical challenges in conducting research during COVID-19 involving resettled refugee youth in Canada17
AI diagnoses terminal illness care limits: just, or just stingy?16
What money can’t buy: an argument against paying people to get vaccinated16
Paediatric surgeons’ current knowledge and practices of obtaining assent from adolescents for elective reconstructive procedures16
Challenging misconceptions about clinical ethics support during COVID-19 and beyond: a legal update and future considerations16
Advancing the scholarship of clinical ethics consultation16
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan16
Concept of ethical preparedness: benefits for clinical laboratory scientists16
Moral obligations in conducting stem cell-based therapy trials for autism spectrum disorder16
Taking the long view on slippery slope objections16
Eligibility and access to voluntary assisted dying: a view from Victoria, Australia15
Words15
Why we should stop using animal-derived products on patients without their consent15
Junior doctors and conscientious objection to voluntary assisted dying: ethical complexity in practice15
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 policies15
Advance directives for oral feeding in dementia: a response to Shelton and Geppert15
COVID-19 conscience tracing: mapping the moral distances of coronavirus15
Lord Sumption and the values of life, liberty and security: before and since the COVID-19 outbreak14
To be, or not to be? The role of the unconscious in transgender transitioning: identity, autonomy and well-being14
Differences between sperm sharing and egg sharing are morally relevant14
Watson, autonomy and value flexibility: revisiting the debate14
Assisted gestative technologies, or on treating unlike cases alike13
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames13
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows13
Who commits the unnaturalistic fallacy?13
Defending two dilemmas13
AI knows best? Avoiding the traps of paternalism and other pitfalls of AI-based patient preference prediction13
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities13
How low can you go? Justified hesitancy and the ethics of childhood vaccination against COVID-1913
Making psychiatry moral again: the role of psychiatry in patient moral development13
Directed and conditional uterus donation13
My body, not my choice: against legalised abortion12
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require?12
Is ageing undesirable? An ethical analysis12
Vulnerable person investigation plan (VIP) to optimise inclusion in clinical trials12
What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines12
Herd immunity, vaccination and moral obligation12
Pretending to care12
Beyond individualisation: towards a more contextualised understanding of women’s social egg freezing experiences12
Expanding choice at the end of life12
Why there is no dilemma for the birth strategy: a response to Bobier and Omelianchuk12
Reassessing the VaxTax11
Ethics of selective restriction of liberty in a pandemic11
Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich11
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy11
Simulating (some) individuals in a connected world11
Exemplarist medical ethics10
Medical AI, inductive risk and the communication of uncertainty: the case of disorders of consciousness10
Promoting diagnostic equity: specifying genetic similarity rather than race or ethnicity10
The ethics of coercion in mental healthcare: the role of structural racism10
Ethics of split liver transplantation: should a large liver always be split if medically safe?10
Public justification and expert disagreement over non-pharmaceutical interventions for the COVID-19 pandemic10
Physician perspectives on placebo ethics10
Vaccine passports and health disparities: a perilous journey10
Privacy, autonomy and direct-to-consumer genetic testing: a response to Vayena10
Downgrades: a potential source of moral tension10
On the elusiveness of higher-order risk attitudes10
Novel drug candidates targeting Alzheimer’s disease: ethical challenges with identifying the relevant patient population10
Ethical implications of disparities in translation genomic medicine: from research to practice9
The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: responses to some important questions9
Response to: Correspondence on ‘Organisational failure: rethinking whistleblowing for tomorrow’s doctors’ by Taylor and Goodwin9
Constructing a South Asian cardiovascular disease: a qualitative analysis on how researchers study cardiovascular disease in South Asians9
Against abandoning the dead donor rule: reply to Smith9
Nocebo effects from clinical notes: reason for action, not opposition for clinicians of patients with medically unexplained symptoms9
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: how NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues9
Centring race, deprivation, and disease severity in healthcare priority setting9
Flawed reasoning on two dilemmas: a commentary on Baron and Dierckxsens (2021)9
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation9
Chronicity: a key concept to deliver ethically driven chronic care9
Arguments for ‘ocular donation’ as standardised terminology to reduce the ‘ick factor’ of ‘eye donation’9
Should vaccination status be a consideration during secondary triage?9
Culture, normativity and morisprudence: a response to the commentaries8
Verification and trust in healthcare8
Epistemic injustice, healthcare disparities and the missing pipeline: reflections on the exclusion of disabled scholars from health research8
Birth’s transformative shift: a response to Waleszczyński8
Reasons for providing assisted suicide and the expressivist objection: a response to Donaldson8
Justice for women/gestators: superior personhood or plain old feminism?8
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al8
Mental integrity, autonomy, and fundamental interests8
Episiotomies and the ethics of consent during labour and birth: thinking beyond the existing consent framework8
Equipoise, standard of care and consent: responding to the authorisation of new COVID-19 treatments in randomised controlled trials8
Assent to research by the formerly competent: necessary and sufficient?8
‘Can I trust my patient?’ Machine Learning support for predicting patient behaviour8
Abortion and the basis of equality: a reply to Miller8
Hope pluralism in antenatal palliative care8
Fracking our humanity8
Paternalism, with and without identity8
Parent-initiated posthumous-assisted reproduction revisited in light of the interest in genetic origins8
Watching the watchmen: changing tides in the oversight of medical assistance in dying8
Navigating cultural diversity: harnessing AI for mental health diagnosis despite value-laden judgements8
Complication for a greener medical ethics code: assisted reproduction8
‘False hope’ in assisted reproduction: the normative significance of the external outlook and moral negotiation8
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics8
Is humanity’s survival really that important?8
Mitochondrial replacement techniques for treating infertility7
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’7
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to Semrau7
Dear WMA, please better engage LMICs and say more about environmental sustainability7
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics7
Trustworthy medical AI systems need to know when they don’t know7
Family experiences with non-therapeutic research on dying patients in the intensive care unit7
Comparative ethical evaluation of epigenome editing and genome editing in medicine: first steps and future directions7
Non-static framework for understanding adaptive designs: an ethical justification in paediatric trials7
Ethical navigation of biobanking establishment in Ukraine: learning from the experience of developing countries7
Physicians’ duty to climate protection as an expression of their professional identity: a defence from Korsgaard’s neo-Kantian moral framework7
Who will receive the last ventilator: why COVID-19 policies should not prioritise healthcare workers7
The Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court regarding assisted suicide: a template for pluralistic states?7
Responsibility is an adequate requirement for authorship: a reply to Levy7
Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action7
Correction:Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials7
Assessing the impact of information on patient attitudes toward artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI/CDS): a pilot web-based SMART vignette study7
Generative AI and medical ethics: the state of play7
Professional obligations and the demandingness of acting against one’s conscience7
The unnaturalistic fallacy: COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity7
Ethics of pronatalism: a reply to critics7
Reproduction misconceived: why there is no right to reproduce and the implications for ART access7
Strengthening harm-theoretic pro-life views6
Ethics briefing6
How useful is the category of ‘assisted gestative technologies’?6
Abandoning the Dead Donor Rule6
Pharmacological and ethical comparisons of lung cancer medicine accessibility in Australia and New Zealand6
Compulsory treatment of physical illness under MHA 19836
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation6
MAID’s slippery slope: a commentary on Downie and Schuklenk6
Discrimination against the dying6
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women6
Orphans cannot be after-birth aborted: a response to Bobier6
Suicidal behaviour is pathological: implications for psychiatric euthanasia6
In the room when it happens6
First among equals? Adaptive preferences and the limits of autonomy in medical ethics6
African vital force and the permissibility of euthanasia6
Ethics briefing6
Ethics briefing6
Genetic discrimination in life insurance: a human rights issue6
Rationality of irrationality: preference catering or shaping?6
Singaporean attitudes to cognitive enhancement: a cross-sectional survey6
Mature minors and gender dysphoria: a matter for clinicians not courts6
The inconsistency argument: why apparent pro-life inconsistency undermines opposition to induced abortion6
Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource6
Machine learning in medicine: should the pursuit of enhanced interpretability be abandoned?6
Abortion and the veil of ignorance: a response to Minehan5
Health disparities from pandemic policies: reply to critics5
Autonomy requires more curiosity less deference to risk5
Revisiting the ought implies can dictum in light of disruptive medical innovation5
Making a case for the inclusion of refractory and severe mental illness as a sole criterion for Canadians requesting medical assistance in dying (MAiD): a review5
Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making5
Commentary on ‘Autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’5
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability5
Why the irremediability requirement is not sufficient to deny psychiatric euthanasia for patients with treatment-resistant depression5
Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation5
‘Recombining’ biological motherhoods. Towards two ‘complete’ biological mothers5
Primary duty is to communicate moment-in-time nature of genetic variant interpretation5
Against tiebreaking arguments in priority setting5
Implications of identity-relative paternalism5
Lessons fromli: a confucian-inspired approach to global bioethics5
Allowing for open debate in medical ethics5
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity5
Are physicians requesting a second opinion really engaging in a reason-giving dialectic? Normative questions on the standards for second opinions and AI5
Imagination and idealism in the medical sciences of an ageing world5
Ethics briefing5
Who shall go first? A multicriteria approach to patient selection for first clinical trials of cardiac xenotransplantation5
How (not) to define ‘assisted dying’5
The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: an exercise in international professional ethical self-regulation5
Dark side of the principles of non-discrimination and proportionality: the case of mandatory vaccination5
Defending the impairment argument5
Xenotransplantation and the way forward5
Surgery should be routinely videoed5
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue5
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?5
Voluntarily chosen roles and conscientious objection in health care5
Knowing who to trust: women and public health5
Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof5
Medical student attitudes to patient involvement in healthcare decision-making and research4
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications4
Reassessing ‘good’ medical practice and the climate crisis4
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’4
Non-accommodationism and conscientious objection in healthcare: a response to Robinson4
AAPT, pregnancy loss and planning ahead4
Surrogacy: beyond the commercial/altruistic distinction4
Playing twister on the stairs: in defence of public health4
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen4
Strategic and principled approach to the ethical challenges of epilepsy monitoring unit triage4
Medical AI: is trust really the issue?4
Facial recognition law in China4
Other possible perspectives for solving the negative outcome penalty paradox in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnostics4
Ethical analysis of the first porcine cardiac xenotransplantation4
Response to commentaries: ‘autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’4
Is medical aid in dying discriminatory?4
Ethical preparedness in the clinical genomics laboratory: the value of embedded ethics expertise4
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means4
If it walks like a duck…: Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Experimental Interventions (MEURI) is research4
Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing childrenin uterodoes not imply the wrongness of abortion4
Fostering relational autonomy in end-of-life care: a procedural approach and three-dimensional decision-making model4
Disability: leaning away from the curve4
No consent for brain death testing4
A physician’s identity can never be reconfigured to put climate protection on par with an individual patient’s best interests4
Mind the gap please: ethical considerations in the transition of virtual consultations from crisis to usual care4
Misunderstanding moral status: a reply to Robinson4
‘First ensure no regret’: a decision-theoretic approach to informed consent in clinical practice4
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation4
What should recognition entail? Responding to the reification of autonomy and vulnerability in medical research4
Risk-related standards of competence are a nonsense4
Ethics consultation as a mental prosthesis: addressing ethical dilemmas in neuropsychiatric disorders4
The wrong word for the job? The ethics of collecting data on ‘race’ in academic publishing4
Navigating our way through a hospital ransomware attack: ethical considerations in delivering acute orthopaedic care4
Extending the ladder: a comment on Paetkau’s stairway proposal4
Concise argument: impact and pandemic reasonableness4
Courts, rights and the critically brain-injured patient4
Spanish regulation of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide4
The values and rules of capacity assessments4
The ethics of natural immunity exemptions to vaccine mandates: the Supreme Court petition4
As low as reasonably practicable (ALARP): a moral model for clinical risk management in the setting of technology dependence4
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