Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical Medicine and 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation21
Johnson, L. Syd M. The ethics of uncertainty: entangled ethical and epistemic risks in disorders of consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55 (hardcover). ISBN: 978019094364621
Robert Veatch’s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics20
The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle14
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”10
Deckers, Jan. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law. Ghent, Belgium: Owl Press, 2023. 263 pp. $24.54(paperback). ISBN 978-9072201591.10
Toward a digitalized medicine: the Covid-19 pandemic as a disclosure of the importance of digital communication in the clinical world10
Dignity as a social-psychological signal: operationalizing “people like us” in clinical institutions9
The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations8
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity8
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education7
Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine7
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent? A response to Segers and De Proost7
Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach6
Reviewers, 20236
McClimans, Leah M. Patient-centered measurement: ethics, epistemology, and dialogue in contemporary medicine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9.780.197.572.078 (Hardback)6
Johnson, James A., Douglas E. Anderson, and Caren C. Rossow. Health Systems thinking: a primer. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. 138 pp. ISBN 97812841671466
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous6
Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure5
Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantaged5
Of rats and humans: rethinking physiological boundaries5
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rights5
Saving the debate: why psychological accounts of personhood ought not accept a univocal biological definition and criterion of death5
The importance of enworlded selfhood for understanding chronic pain-related suffering5
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality5
Principlism language in contemporary Chinese bioethics: dissonance and discordance4
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal4
An inability-based account of psychiatric harm4
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective4
Bishop, Jeffrey P., M. Therese Lysaught, and Andrew A. Michel. Biopolitics after Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 288pp. $115.00 (cloth); $39.95 4
Biographical lives and organ conscription4
Correction to: Biographical lives and organ conscription4
Subjectivity of pre-test probability value: controversies over the use of Bayes’ Theorem in medical diagnosis4
Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs4
Cutter, Mary Ann G.: An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. New York: Routledge, 2024, x + 123 pp, $144 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-032-62099-24
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost4
S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-64
Benjamin’s translation as dialectical abduction: a novel epistemic framework for diagnostic hypothesizing3
Rethinking the nature of medicine: limits of the inquiry thesis through the case of African traditional medicine3
Boggatz Thomas (ed). Quality of life and person-centered care for older people. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. 466 pp. $59.99 (paper). ISBN 978-3-030-29989-73
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better3
Sex, demoralized3
Whole body gestational donation3
Is pharmacogenetics being racialized? An investigation into the reinscription of racial beliefs in modern biomedicine3
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor3
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality3
Ethical thinking and practice in the healthcare professions3
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?3
Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice3
Paul Scherz: The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare. University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, 2024, 194 pp., $40.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-02682-0905-63
Can bioethics bray? Non-human animals, biosemiotics, and a road to shared decision-making3
A shared grammar: a counterfactual dialogue between disease and illness3
Reviewers, 20222
A structured analysis of the concept of brain death2
Correction to: How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism2
Tacit social experimentation with digital technologies during the Covid-19 crisis2
In ethics a model is important: interview with Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino2
Promoting deceased organ donation: should familist incentives be adopted in Islamic regions?2
Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism2
Osteoporosis and risk of fracture: reference class problems are real2
Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status2
Safeguarding the dead donor rule in the age of normothermic regional perfusion: organismic unity, irreversibility, and epistemic responsibility2
Chochinov, Harvey Max. Dignity in Care. The Human Side of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 184 pp. (print) ISBN 9780199380428, (online) ISBN 97801993804592
Unmasking therapy-speak2
Rasmussen, Lisa M., and Holm, Søren (Eds.): 50 Years of philosophy and medicine2
The limitations of narrative medicine2
A critique of whole body gestational donation2
Pain-like isn’t pain. Reasserting affective attitudes as the boundary of moral life2
DeGrazia, David, and Millum, Joseph. A theory of bioethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 316 pp. $99.99 (cloth) ISBN 978,316,515,839, $24.99 (paper) SBN 9,781,009,011,7472
Deleuzo–Guattarian de-construction of the mind to re-evaluate undeath2
On the method of diagnosis2
Defining ‘Abortion’: a call for clarity2
Ethical prioritization of critical care resources during COVID-19: perspectives from Italy and the United States2
Phenomenology’s place in the philosophy of medicine2
The ethics of anti-love drugs qua precommitment strategy2
The evolution of research participant as partner: the seminal contributions of Bob Veatch2
Robert Veatch’s transplantation ethics: obtaining and allocating organs from deceased persons1
On instrumentality and second-order effects: revisiting anti-natalism and animal farming1
Rosamond Rhodes: The trusted doctor: medical ethics and professionalism1
Using curiosity to render the invisible, visible1
Contributions of neo-Aristotelian phronesis to ethical medical practice1
Robert Veatch’s early career in bioethics, contributions to the field, and career at Georgetown University1
A single definition and criterion of death1
A letter to the article “Whole Body Gestational Donation” published by Anna Smajdor in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics1
An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions1
Misapplying autonomy: why patient wishes cannot settle treatment decisions1
Clarifying the public misrepresentation of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance1
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle1
Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents1
Towards a systematic evaluation of moral bioenhancement1
Reviewers, 20251
Orthorexia nervosa: nosographic category or not?1
Controversial arguments are controversial1
Parents (of minors) are not surrogates: acknowledging (finally) the unique moral space of parents1
Making a dead woman pregnant? A critique of the thought experiment of Anna Smajdor1
The limits and possibilities of language: attending to our ‘ways with words’ in medicine and bioethics1
The patient experience of medically unexplained symptoms: an existentialist analysis1
Do not harm: a minimal defense of conscientious objection in the medical profession1
Introduction: controversial arguments in bioethics1
Ten have, Henk A.M.J. Wounded planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help. John Hopkins University Press. 2019. 376 pp. Hard cover: ISBN: 978-1-4214-2745-4.1
Hermeneutics as impediment to AI in medicine1
Reconsidering the impairment argument against abortion1
Correspondence on “defining ‘abortion’”: response to Sakr1
Intending to avoid the treatment burdens only: the doctrine of double effect and withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment1
The philosopher as partner: an introduction to the scholarship of Robert M. Veatch1
Death as “benefit” in the context of non-voluntary euthanasia1
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