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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents122
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?82
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients66
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question65
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits60
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?54
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?53
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings53
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases51
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death49
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind49
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems42
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare41
What Lane Should We Stay In? Medical Relevance, Medical Necessity, and Clinical Genital Alteration of Minors40
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks37
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards36
War, Bioethics, and Public Health36
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option33
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?31
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation28
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics28
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?28
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria27
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”27
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology26
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?26
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
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine24
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege24
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails23
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare23
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts23
Agent-Regret in Healthcare23
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications23
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge22
Respect for Readiness22
Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine22
Noninvasive Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: A Misplaced Expressive Concern, Tough Policy Choices22
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease22
What We Owe Those Who Chat Woe: A Relational Lens for Mental Health Apps22
Critically Evaluating MAID in Canada Through an Inequities Lens21
When Sanctions Meet Corruption: Reframing Healthcare Access in Russia21
Comparisons Only Yield Valid Mutual Learnings If Based on Accurate Descriptions of the Comparators21
Racing to the Bottom: Adam Smith’s Hazard Pay Does Not Justify Compensation for Research Risks21
Informed Consensus: The Future of Respect for Persons in Biomedical Research21
Conscription as a Public Health Crisis: A Missing Dimension in the Bioethics of War21
Reasons, Persons, Eugenics and an Argument in Favour of Gene Editing21
Autonomy Under Ignorance20
Next Steps for Climate-Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics?20
Ethical Care Necessitates Synthesizing the Best Available Evidence20
Informed Consent and Transformative Experiences in Psychedelic Therapy: A Nuanced Approach20
Psychedelic Ethics in Palliative Care19
Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death Violate the Dead Donor Rule?19
Ethical Responsibilities for Companies That Process Personal Data19
Knowing You Know Better19
Examining Moral Stress and Moral Distress Through the Lens of Non-Human Animal Clinicians: Understanding Challenges in Animal Healthcare Systems18
Goldilocks and the Thanatron: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries18
Liberalism and Identity17
Centering More than Trauma Experiences: Reflections from Launching a Graduate Course on Bioethics & Racial Justice in Canada17
Materializing Systemic Racism, Materializing Health Disparities17
All Healthcare Ethics Consultation ServicesShouldMeet Shared Quality Standards17
Medical Interpretation Services: Challenges for LEP Communities17
Human Genome Editing and Identity: The Precariousness of Existence and the Abundance of Argumentative Options16
Ethical Withdrawal of ECMO Support Over the Objections of Competent Patients16
Nurtured Genetics: Prenatal Testing and the Anchoring of Genetic Expectancies16
The Role of Self-Illness Ambiguity and Self-Medication Ambiguity in Clinical Decision-Making16
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 Record16
Cultural Competence as New Racism: Working as Intended?15
Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?15
Is Transparency about the Line between Life and Death Good for Organ Donation?15
Defining and Defending Personhood: Lessons from the Disease Debate14
See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training14
Power in the Pragmatic View14
The Postponed Withholding Model: An Autoethnographic Analysis14
Materialized Oppression in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design14
OrganEx: What Will It Mean?14
Inpatient Hospitalization of Adolescents Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Ethical Analysis14
How Ethics Can Better Anticipate the Consequences of Emerging Biotechnologies13
The Fallibility of Personal Experience13
The Need for a Global Approach to the Ethical Evaluation of Healthcare Machine Learning13
The Importance of Understanding Language in Large Language Models12
Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application Value12
ChatGPT’s Relevance for Bioethics: A Novel Challenge to the Intrinsically Relational, Critical, and Reason-Giving Aspect of Healthcare12
A Paradigm of Investigator Duty to Multiple Stakeholder Participants12
Empowering Queer Data Justice12
For Bioethics to Center Justice, We Must Reconsider Funding, Training, and the Taxonomy of Bioethics12
Toward Relational Diversity for AI in Psychotherapy11
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities11
Is the Right to a Healthy Environment Enough? Reckoning with a History of Failures in Chemical Valley11
Measuring Value with Volume11
Beware the Jackalopes10
Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation10
Addressing Environmental Injustices Requires a Public Health Ethics and/or Human Rights Perspective10
Bioethicists Tomorrow: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Future Directions9
Law Enforcement Interventionism as Determinant of Decision-Making Among Resuscitated Opioid Users9
Ethical Pathways: Transitioning Whole-Eye Transplantation Into Clinical Practice9
Psychedelic Ethics Beside Institutions9
Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy9
Request for Correction of an Article Focused Bodywork as Facilitated Communication: Cautionary Perspectives on Touch in Psychedelic Therapy8
Withdrawal of ECMO Support over the Objections of a Capacitated Patient can be Appropriate8
Gender Norms, Altruism and Susceptibility to the Social Value Misconception8
Data Properties or Analytical Methodologies: Too Much Attention to the Former Ignores Concerns About the Latter8
ChatGPT’s Responses to Dilemmas in Medical Ethics: The Devil is in the Details8
Diversifying the Bioethics Funding Landscape: The Case of TMS8
What Can Committees Demonstrate That Professional Ethicists Can’t? Impartial Review with Adequate Due Process8
Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care8
Should the Use of Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine be Classified as Research?8
Prudently Evaluating Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems8
Agent-Regret in Healthcare: Toward a More Precise and Empirical-Based Look into the Dynamics of Agent-Regret Experiences8
Rare Disease, Advocacy, and Caregiver Burnout8
An All-Too-Human Enterprise8
There Is Only One Sphere of Morality7
Parents Have a Right to Refuse Brain Death Testing, Including Apnea Testing7
An Opportunity to Reconsider Fiduciary Framing in Medicine7
Different MAiD Laws, Different MAiD Outcomes: Expected Rather Than “Disturbing”7
A Surgeon’s Perspective From the Sharp End of Surgical Innovation7
Moral Stress and Moral Distress in a Novel Space of Virtual Healthcare7
A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found Elsewhere7
Differences in Degree-not-Kind-of Responsibility within Conversational Artificial Intelligence7
Current Medical Aid-in-Dying Laws Discriminate against Individuals with Disabilities7
The Concept of Personal Utility in Genomic Testing: Three Ethical Tensions7
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
Parrots at the Bedside: Making Surrogate Decisions with Stochastic Strangers7
Embrace the Gray: How Tackling the Clinical Complexities of the Gray Zone Will Improve Decision-making7
The Slippery Slope Argument and Assisted Death: Which Approach to MAiD Does It Really Support?7
Correction6
Equipoise and Personal Experience: Maintaining Objectivity in Psychedelic Research6
Early AI Lifecycle Co-Reasoning: Ethics Through Integrated and Diverse Team Science6
The Complex Relationship between Disability Discrimination and Frailty Scores6
The Brainstem Criterion of Death and Accurate Syndromic Diagnosis6
Enhancing Decision-Making Capacity Assessments Beyond Outlier Cases: A Multi-Faceted Health Care Systems Approach6
Stewardship or Punishment? Ethical Analysis of Transplant Candidacy for a Child from a Low-Resourced Family6
Protecting Health Privacy through Reasonable Inferences6
Lessons Learned from Reproductive Justice: Communication with the Public to Earn and Maintain Trust of New and Existing Innovations6
Incorporating Research Burden and Utility Considerations as Limiting Factors in a Framework for Returning IRR6
Bias and Epistemic Injustice in Conversational AI6
Scapegoat-in-the-Loop? Human Control over Medical AI and the (Mis)Attribution of Responsibility6
Calling for a Multi-Level Green Healthcare Ethics6
Complexity of Establishing “Reasonability” in Conscientious Objection Claims6
Strategies for Data Ethics Governance: Elevating Patient and Community Perspectives6
Who Is Responsible for Promoting Equity in Rare Disease Research?6
(Ir)Relevance of Ethics Committees: The Continued Value of Hospital Ethics Committees in Programs with Professional Ethicist Staffing5
Digital Simulacra: Circumventing Diversity and Inclusion5
The Bilingual Patient’s Dilemma: Same Question, Different Answer5
Moral Distress and Moral Stress Among Nurses Facing Challenges in a Health Care System Under Pressure5
Using Algorithms to Make Ethical Judgements: METHAD vs. the ADC Model5
The Dead Donor Rule Does Require that the Donor is Dead5
Behavior Contracts and Lessons from Parenting “Rotten” Kids5
Bioethics Consultation and First-Order Moral Reasoning: Leaving Philosophy at the Hospital Doors5
The End of Personhood5
Solidarity as an Aspirational Basis for Partnership with Tribal Communities5
Racism and the Textures of Visibility5
Artificial Womb Technology, Catholic Health Care, and Social Justice5
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Developing a Reflexive, Anticipatory, and Deliberative Approach to Unanticipated Discoveries: Ethical Lessons from iBlastoids”5
Beyond Consent: The MAMLS in the Room5
Hospital Ethics Committees and Consultants: How Do Clinicians Perceive Their Utility in Resolving Disagreements About Life-Sustaining Treatments?5
Another Cautionary Lesson from COVID Research5
Environmental Justice: A Missing Core Tenet of Global Health5
Bioethics and the Power Asymmetry Contextualizing Experience5
Bounded Justice, Inclusion, and the Hyper/Invisibility of Race in Precision Medicine5
Beyond Incommensurability and Appropriateness: Integrating theTelosof Medicine and Addressing Compartmentalization in the Spheres of Morality Framework5
Wither Vulnerability? The Over/Under Protection Dilemma and Research Equity5
Maternal-Fetal Therapy: The (Psycho)Social Dilemma5
Building Trauma-Informed Hospital Ethics Cultures5
Bioethics Theory-Building for Public Health5
Research on the Clinical Translation of Health Care Machine Learning: Ethicists Experiences on Lessons Learned5
A Knower Without a Voice: Co-Reasoning with Machine Learning5
Enrolling Foster Youth in Clinical Trials: Avoiding the Harm of Exclusion5
From CRISPR to Conscience: Ethical Dilemmas in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection5
“I Can Decide for Myself:” Adolescents Who Wish to Consent for Covid-19 Vaccination4
The Benefits of Experience Greatly Exceed the Liabilities4
Not All Publics Are the Same—A Note on Power, Diversity, and Lived Expertise in Public Deliberation4
Erasing Blackness From Bioethics4
Making Ethical Considerations Transparent in the Formulation of Public Health Guidance4
“Sorry, but the Ethicist Said Your Life Isn’t Actually Worth Living”: Misunderstanding Ethics and the Role of the Ethics Consultant4
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Toward a Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases4
Making Culture a Verb: Implications for Health Equity4
“Essentially as One of Fact to Be Determined by Physicians”: Applying Lessons Learned From Brain Death to Normothermic Regional Perfusion4
Wrongful Birth: AI-Tools for Moral Decisions in Clinical Care in the Absence of Disability Ethics4
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: What Can be Learned from a Historical Analysis of General Anesthesia and Surgery?4
Eliminating or Calibrating the Role of Chance? Acute Resource Scarcity as a Challenge for Luck Egalitarianism4
Improving Ethics Support: Seeing and Organizing Ethics Support Differently4
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death Conceptually Justifies Death Determination in DCDD and NRP Protocols4
Navigating Tensions Between Law and Ethics in Surrogate Decision Making4
The Intrinsic Value of Public Deliberation in the Governance of Human Genome Editing4
Privacy, Health, and Race Equity in the Digital Age4
Lost in Gestation: On Fetonates, Perinates, and Gestatelings4
Promising Practices for Inclusive Precision Medicine Research and the Contribution to Public and Population Health4
Social Value, Beneficial Information, and Obligations to Participants in a Trial of Novel COVID-19 Vaccines4
Personal but Necessarily Predictive? Developing a Bioethics Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Decision-Making Tools4
Supported Decisions as the Patient’s Own?4
Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, and the Prevention of Forced and Coerced Surgeries4
Clarifying the Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Dobbs4
My Story is Traumatic, You Probably Would Not Understand4
Academic and Private Partnership to Improve Informed Consent Forms Using a Data Driven Approach4
Physician Responsibility to Discuss Palliative Unproven Therapies With Out-of-Option Patients4
Emerging Paradigms for Ethical Review of Research Using Artificial Intelligence4
Rare Disease, Advocacy and Justice: Intersecting Disparities in Research and Clinical Care4
Common Rule Revisions to Govern Machine Learning on Indigenous Data: Implementing the Expectations4
Protecting Privacy While Optimizing the Use of (Health)Data: The Importance of Measures and Safeguards4
Health Equity Frameworks in Bioethical Perspective: Systemic Interventions and Innovative Justice4
An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk–Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation4
The Potential Role of Nudging in Expanded Noninvasive Prenatal Testing4
Sorry, Not Sorry: Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued4
Is Gene Editing Harmless? Two Arguments for Gene Editing4
Reestablishing Circulation in Donors: To What Degree Does It Matter?4
The Dialectics of Racial Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility under the Mestizaje Discourse in Latin America4
Health Disparities, Systemic Racism, and Failures of Cultural Competence: Authors’ Response to Commentaries4
A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)4
Dementia, Frailty and Triage in a Pandemic4
The Two Sides of the Social Value Misconception4
Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria4
Epistemic Value of Digital Simulacra for Patients4
Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease4
Applying the Harm Principle to Elder Care4
The Human and Humanity that Differentiate Withholding from Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy: An ECMO Bridge to Nowhere4
“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
Recontextualizing Suffering: When Pain Has Purpose4
From Data to Harm: Exploring Ethical and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits4
Considering Reprogenomics in the Ethical Future of Fetal Therapy Trials4
A Justice-Based Defense of a Litmus Test4
The Patient Preference Predictor: A Timely Boost for Personalized Medicine4
AUTOGEN and the Ethics of Co-Creation with Personalized LLMs—Reply to the Commentaries4
Cultivating Patient-Centered Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Transparency: Considerations for AI Documentation4
Bridge or Destination: Ethical Complexity, Emotional Unrest4
Transforming Behavior Contracts Into Collaborative Commitments With Families4
Capacity, Rationality, and the Promotion of Autonomy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Refusals of Care After Opioid Poisoning3
Comparing the Results of Two Surveys on the Views of Bioethicists3
Putting the Agency in Agent-Regret3
Ethics, Engagement, and Escalating Interventions3
Reconfiguring Health: The Importance of Recognizing Embodied Subjectivity and Social Dynamics in Health3
What Is a Physician? Navigating Incommensurable Spheres of Role Morality3
Who’s Experience, Which Liability?3
The Authenticity Requirement: Why Using Digital Twins for Achieving Person-Span Extension Goods Can Be Self-Defeating3
A Clarified Interpretation of Permanence Justifies Death Determination in NRP Protocols3
Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making3
Invidious Discrimination v. Conscientious Objection: C’mon, a rose is a rose is a rose!3
What Bioethics Owes Reproductive Justice3
Challenging the Centrality of Anti-Racism in Bioethics3
Current Ethical Considerations of Human Whole Eye Transplantation is Short-Sighted3
Appreciating Language in Bioethics: From Theory to Practice3
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
Ethical Issues in Death by Neurologic Criteria Require Critical Scrutiny: Lack of Engagement with Sound Arguments to Save Medical Dogma3
Deconstructing Structural Injustices in the Clinic, Classroom, and Boardroom3
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