American Journal of Bioethics

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents110
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?78
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails62
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge59
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients56
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question51
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits48
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings45
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?45
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?44
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?43
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases41
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind37
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death37
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems37
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare35
Agent-Regret in Healthcare35
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards31
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option31
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?30
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics28
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”27
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria27
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?26
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation26
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology26
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action25
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?25
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse24
War, Bioethics, and Public Health23
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine23
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege23
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications22
What We Owe Those Who Chat Woe: A Relational Lens for Mental Health Apps22
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts22
Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine22
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare22
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease22
Respect for Readiness22
Informed Consensus: The Future of Respect for Persons in Biomedical Research21
Comparisons Only Yield Valid Mutual Learnings If Based on Accurate Descriptions of the Comparators21
The Role of Self-Illness Ambiguity and Self-Medication Ambiguity in Clinical Decision-Making21
Noninvasive Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: A Misplaced Expressive Concern, Tough Policy Choices21
Reasons, Persons, Eugenics and an Argument in Favour of Gene Editing21
Psychedelic Ethics in Palliative Care20
Racing to the Bottom: Adam Smith’s Hazard Pay Does Not Justify Compensation for Research Risks20
Examining Moral Stress and Moral Distress Through the Lens of Non-Human Animal Clinicians: Understanding Challenges in Animal Healthcare Systems20
When Sanctions Meet Corruption: Reframing Healthcare Access in Russia20
Critically Evaluating MAID in Canada Through an Inequities Lens20
Knowing You Know Better20
Conscription as a Public Health Crisis: A Missing Dimension in the Bioethics of War20
Centering More than Trauma Experiences: Reflections from Launching a Graduate Course on Bioethics & Racial Justice in Canada19
Goldilocks and the Thanatron: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries19
Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?19
All Healthcare Ethics Consultation ServicesShouldMeet Shared Quality Standards19
Materializing Systemic Racism, Materializing Health Disparities18
Medical Interpretation Services: Challenges for LEP Communities18
Contingency Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: An Analysis Based on a New Ethical Framework17
Liberalism and Identity16
Decisions on Innovation or Research for Devastating Disease16
Making Structural Discrimination Visible: A Call for Intersectional Bioethics16
Medicalized Oppression: Labels of “Violence Risk” in the Electronic Medical Record15
Nurtured Genetics: Prenatal Testing and the Anchoring of Genetic Expectancies15
Ethical Withdrawal of ECMO Support Over the Objections of Competent Patients15
Human Genome Editing and Identity: The Precariousness of Existence and the Abundance of Argumentative Options15
Defining and Defending Personhood: Lessons from the Disease Debate14
Ethical Responsibilities for Companies That Process Personal Data14
Is Transparency about the Line between Life and Death Good for Organ Donation?14
Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death Violate the Dead Donor Rule?14
Cultural Competence as New Racism: Working as Intended?14
OrganEx: What Will It Mean?13
The Postponed Withholding Model: An Autoethnographic Analysis13
Materialized Oppression in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design13
See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training13
Power in the Pragmatic View13
The Wrong Argument for a Bad Law12
Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care12
How Ethics Can Better Anticipate the Consequences of Emerging Biotechnologies12
Diversifying the Bioethics Funding Landscape: The Case of TMS12
Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application Value12
The Need for a Global Approach to the Ethical Evaluation of Healthcare Machine Learning12
Inpatient Hospitalization of Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Ethical Analysis12
The Fallibility of Personal Experience12
The Importance of Understanding Language in Large Language Models11
ChatGPT’s Relevance for Bioethics: A Novel Challenge to the Intrinsically Relational, Critical, and Reason-Giving Aspect of Healthcare11
Empowering Queer Data Justice11
A Paradigm of Investigator Duty to Multiple Stakeholder Participants11
For Bioethics to Center Justice, We Must Reconsider Funding, Training, and the Taxonomy of Bioethics11
Is the Right to a Healthy Environment Enough? Reckoning with a History of Failures in Chemical Valley10
Measuring Value with Volume10
Toward Relational Diversity for AI in Psychotherapy10
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities9
ChatGPT’s Responses to Dilemmas in Medical Ethics: The Devil is in the Details9
Bioethicists Tomorrow: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Future Directions8
Beware the Jackalopes8
Psychedelic Ethics Beside Institutions8
Ethical Pathways: Transitioning Whole-Eye Transplantation Into Clinical Practice8
Rare Disease, Advocacy, and Caregiver Burnout8
Addressing Environmental Injustices Requires a Public Health Ethics and/or Human Rights Perspective8
Law Enforcement Interventionism as Determinant of Decision-Making Among Resuscitated Opioid Users8
Prudently Evaluating Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems8
Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation8
Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy7
What Can Committees Demonstrate That Professional Ethicists Can’t? Impartial Review with Adequate Due Process7
Assessing Risk and Supportive Care for a Hospital Discharge Refusal7
You Don’t Have to Be Bad to Work Here: Sustaining Ideals Inside Healthcare Institutions7
Co-Reasoning and Epistemic Inequality in AI Supported Medical Decision-Making7
There Is Only One Sphere of Morality7
Differences in Degree-not-Kind-of Responsibility within Conversational Artificial Intelligence7
Agent-Regret in Healthcare: Toward a More Precise and Empirical-Based Look into the Dynamics of Agent-Regret Experiences7
Should the Use of Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine be Classified as Research?7
Data Properties or Analytical Methodologies: Too Much Attention to the Former Ignores Concerns About the Latter7
Parents Have a Right to Refuse Brain Death Testing, Including Apnea Testing7
From CRISPR to Conscience: Ethical Dilemmas in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection7
The Slippery Slope Argument and Assisted Death: Which Approach to MAiD Does It Really Support?7
Withdrawal of ECMO Support over the Objections of a Capacitated Patient can be Appropriate7
An All-Too-Human Enterprise7
Moral Stress and Moral Distress in a Novel Space of Virtual Healthcare7
The Dead Donor Rule Does Require that the Donor is Dead7
An Opportunity to Reconsider Fiduciary Framing in Medicine7
A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found Elsewhere7
Scapegoat-in-the-Loop? Human Control over Medical AI and the (Mis)Attribution of Responsibility6
Early AI Lifecycle Co-Reasoning: Ethics Through Integrated and Diverse Team Science6
Different MAiD Laws, Different MAiD Outcomes: Expected Rather Than “Disturbing”6
The Concept of Personal Utility in Genomic Testing: Three Ethical Tensions6
Correction6
Equipoise and Personal Experience: Maintaining Objectivity in Psychedelic Research6
Who Is Responsible for Promoting Equity in Rare Disease Research?6
Current Medical Aid-in-Dying Laws Discriminate against Individuals with Disabilities6
The Need for an Ethics of Care in the Contingency Response to Public Health Emergencies6
A Surgeon’s Perspective From the Sharp End of Surgical Innovation6
Stewardship or Punishment? Ethical Analysis of Transplant Candidacy for a Child from a Low-Resourced Family6
Enhancing Decision-Making Capacity Assessments Beyond Outlier Cases: A Multi-Faceted Health Care Systems Approach6
Embrace the Gray: How Tackling the Clinical Complexities of the Gray Zone Will Improve Decision-making6
Parrots at the Bedside: Making Surrogate Decisions with Stochastic Strangers6
Complexity of Establishing “Reasonability” in Conscientious Objection Claims5
Strategies for Data Ethics Governance: Elevating Patient and Community Perspectives5
Beyond Consent: The MAMLS in the Room5
Bounded Justice, Inclusion, and the Hyper/Invisibility of Race in Precision Medicine5
Bioethics Consultation and First-Order Moral Reasoning: Leaving Philosophy at the Hospital Doors5
Ethically Navigating the Murky Waters of “Contingency Standards of Care”5
Hospital Ethics Committees and Consultants: How Do Clinicians Perceive Their Utility in Resolving Disagreements About Life-Sustaining Treatments?5
Environmental Justice: A Missing Core Tenet of Global Health5
Bias and Epistemic Injustice in Conversational AI5
Bioethics Theory-Building for Public Health5
The Bilingual Patient’s Dilemma: Same Question, Different Answer5
Protecting Health Privacy through Reasonable Inferences5
Racism and the Textures of Visibility5
Artificial Womb Technology, Catholic Health Care, and Social Justice5
Solidarity as an Aspirational Basis for Partnership with Tribal Communities5
The End of Personhood5
Building Trauma-Informed Hospital Ethics Cultures5
Beyond Incommensurability and Appropriateness: Integrating theTelosof Medicine and Addressing Compartmentalization in the Spheres of Morality Framework5
Using Algorithms to Make Ethical Judgements: METHAD vs. the ADC Model5
Moral Distress and Moral Stress Among Nurses Facing Challenges in a Health Care System Under Pressure5
Incorporating Research Burden and Utility Considerations as Limiting Factors in a Framework for Returning IRR5
Wither Vulnerability? The Over/Under Protection Dilemma and Research Equity5
The Brainstem Criterion of Death and Accurate Syndromic Diagnosis5
Patient Rights to Publicity versus Provider Rights to Privacy: Striking a Balance When Blogging in the Medical Setting5
Enrolling Foster Youth in Clinical Trials: Avoiding the Harm of Exclusion5
The Complex Relationship between Disability Discrimination and Frailty Scores5
(Ir)Relevance of Ethics Committees: The Continued Value of Hospital Ethics Committees in Programs with Professional Ethicist Staffing5
Digital Simulacra: Circumventing Diversity and Inclusion5
Maternal-Fetal Therapy: The (Psycho)Social Dilemma5
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Developing a Reflexive, Anticipatory, and Deliberative Approach to Unanticipated Discoveries: Ethical Lessons from iBlastoids”5
From Data to Harm: Exploring Ethical and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits4
Transforming Behavior Contracts Into Collaborative Commitments With Families4
Consultation with Doctor Twitter: Consent Fatigue, and the Role of Developers in Digital Medical Ethics4
The Benefits of Experience Greatly Exceed the Liabilities4
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Toward a Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases4
Dementia, Frailty and Triage in a Pandemic4
Conscience Clauses and Ideological Bias4
Epistemic Value of Digital Simulacra for Patients4
Emerging Paradigms for Ethical Review of Research Using Artificial Intelligence4
Applying the Harm Principle to Elder Care4
Navigating Tensions Between Law and Ethics in Surrogate Decision Making4
Social Value, Beneficial Information, and Obligations to Participants in a Trial of Novel COVID-19 Vaccines4
Another Cautionary Lesson from COVID Research4
Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria4
Protecting Privacy While Optimizing the Use of (Health)Data: The Importance of Measures and Safeguards4
Rare Disease, Advocacy and Justice: Intersecting Disparities in Research and Clinical Care4
Supported Decisions as the Patient’s Own?4
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: What Can be Learned from a Historical Analysis of General Anesthesia and Surgery?4
Wrongful Birth: AI-Tools for Moral Decisions in Clinical Care in the Absence of Disability Ethics4
AUTOGEN and the Ethics of Co-Creation with Personalized LLMs—Reply to the Commentaries4
Privacy, Health, and Race Equity in the Digital Age4
Common Rule Revisions to Govern Machine Learning on Indigenous Data: Implementing the Expectations4
Promising Practices for Inclusive Precision Medicine Research and the Contribution to Public and Population Health4
“What Does a Life Worth Living Mean to You?” Narrative Approaches to Ethics Consultation in the Context of Trauma, Treatment Refractory Depression, and Life-Sustaining Care Refusals4
Academic and Private Partnership to Improve Informed Consent Forms Using a Data Driven Approach4
My Story is Traumatic, You Probably Would Not Understand4
Erasing Blackness From Bioethics4
Cultivating Patient-Centered Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Transparency: Considerations for AI Documentation4
“Sorry, but the Ethicist Said Your Life Isn’t Actually Worth Living”: Misunderstanding Ethics and the Role of the Ethics Consultant4
An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk–Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation4
Making Culture a Verb: Implications for Health Equity4
“I Can Decide for Myself:” Adolescents Who Wish to Consent for Covid-19 Vaccination4
Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease4
Bioethics and the Power Asymmetry Contextualizing Experience4
Not All Publics Are the Same—A Note on Power, Diversity, and Lived Expertise in Public Deliberation4
Behavior Contracts and Lessons from Parenting “Rotten” Kids4
Considering Reprogenomics in the Ethical Future of Fetal Therapy Trials4
Sorry, Not Sorry: Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued4
A Justice-Based Defense of a Litmus Test4
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death Conceptually Justifies Death Determination in DCDD and NRP Protocols4
The Dialectics of Racial Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility under the Mestizaje Discourse in Latin America4
Eliminating or Calibrating the Role of Chance? Acute Resource Scarcity as a Challenge for Luck Egalitarianism4
Reestablishing Circulation in Donors: To What Degree Does It Matter?4
Is Gene Editing Harmless? Two Arguments for Gene Editing4
Health Disparities, Systemic Racism, and Failures of Cultural Competence: Authors’ Response to Commentaries4
The Potential Role of Nudging in Expanded Noninvasive Prenatal Testing4
Personal but Necessarily Predictive? Developing a Bioethics Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Decision-Making Tools4
“Essentially as One of Fact to Be Determined by Physicians”: Applying Lessons Learned From Brain Death to Normothermic Regional Perfusion4
Clarifying the Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Dobbs4
Research on the Clinical Translation of Health Care Machine Learning: Ethicists Experiences on Lessons Learned4
Lost in Gestation: On Fetonates, Perinates, and Gestatelings4
The Patient Preference Predictor: A Timely Boost for Personalized Medicine4
The Intrinsic Value of Public Deliberation in the Governance of Human Genome Editing4
Making Ethical Considerations Transparent in the Formulation of Public Health Guidance4
Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, and the Prevention of Forced and Coerced Surgeries4
A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)4
Physician Responsibility to Discuss Palliative Unproven Therapies With Out-of-Option Patients4
A Knower Without a Voice: Co-Reasoning with Machine Learning4
Improving Ethics Support: Seeing and Organizing Ethics Support Differently4
Bridge or Destination: Ethical Complexity, Emotional Unrest4
The Human and Humanity that Differentiate Withholding from Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy: An ECMO Bridge to Nowhere4
Excusing Psychedelics and Accommodating Psychedelics4
A Different Type of “Against Medical Advice”: When Patients Refuse Discharge3
Ethical Issues in Death by Neurologic Criteria Require Critical Scrutiny: Lack of Engagement with Sound Arguments to Save Medical Dogma3
The Authenticity Requirement: Why Using Digital Twins for Achieving Person-Span Extension Goods Can Be Self-Defeating3
Comparing the Results of Two Surveys on the Views of Bioethicists3
Pathways to Drug Liberalization: Racial Justice, Public Health, and Human Rights3
Ethics, Engagement, and Escalating Interventions3
Reconfiguring Health: The Importance of Recognizing Embodied Subjectivity and Social Dynamics in Health3
What Bioethics Owes Reproductive Justice3
Embracing Epistemic Humility: Rethinking Psychedelic Exceptionalism Through Diverse Perspectives3
Including Non-Medical Traits in the NIPT: What Can We Learn from an Ethics of Care Approach?3
Capacity, Rationality, and the Promotion of Autonomy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Refusals of Care After Opioid Poisoning3
Invidious Discrimination v. Conscientious Objection: C’mon, a rose is a rose is a rose!3
Appreciating Language in Bioethics: From Theory to Practice3
Who’s Experience, Which Liability?3
Special Considerations When Research is Embedded within Community Health Centers3
Place-Based Thoughtfulness and Decision-Making in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection3
The Fallacy of Relevance and Moral Risks3
Current Ethical Considerations of Human Whole Eye Transplantation is Short-Sighted3
A Clarified Interpretation of Permanence Justifies Death Determination in NRP Protocols3
Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making3
Not Dead, but Close Enough? You Cannot Have Your Cake and Eat It Too in Satisfying the DDR in cDCD3
How Medical Technologies Materialize Oppression3
Trojan Horses, Clinical Utility, and Parfitian Puzzles3
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