American Journal of Bioethics

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Bioethics is 2. 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
Prenatal Testing: Responsibility and Reality101
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology75
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?58
The Role of Philosophers in Bioethics57
Two Models of Bioethics51
I’m Not Welcome There: Why I Am Not Attending IAB 202450
To Swab or Not to Swab: Waiver of Consent to Collect Perianal Specimens from Incapacitated Patients With Severe Burn Injury46
Challenges of Bioethics Frameworks for Non-Democratic Contexts45
Think Like a Journalist and Act as a Risk and Crisis Communicator in the Context of Public Health Emergencies43
Computational Ethics Tools to Audit Corporate Self-Governance in Data Processing42
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action41
Moving to Equity in the All of Us Research Program40
No Elder Left Behind: The Role of Environmental Justice in Geriatrics and Palliative Care39
Challenges for Environmental Justice Under Bioethical Principlism38
Unilateral Withdrawal, Technological Creep, and the Role of Proportionality in ECMO Policy36
Fuzzy Logic: How the Practicalities of State Involvement Shape the Most Ethically Supportable Way Forward35
No Justification to Exclude State Ward from Pediatric Transplant Research33
Solidarity: A Missing Component of Research Ethics31
Reopening the ‘Window to the Soul’?: The Ethics of Eye Transplantation Now and in the Future29
Current Ethical Considerations of Human Whole Eye Transplantation is Short-Sighted28
Whether Whole Eye Transplant is a Benefit or Harm Depends on More Than the Observer28
Capacity, Rationality, and the Promotion of Autonomy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Refusals of Care After Opioid Poisoning28
Researchers Experience Moral Distress Too!27
Reasonable But Not Permissible: Conscientious Objection and Reasonable Disagreement26
Time for Federal Standards on Death Determination: The National Determination of Death Act26
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse26
Aligning Ongoing Care Teams and Proceduralists About Inappropriate Interventions Requires More Than Conscientious Objection25
Clinical Ethics at Early Stages: What Growing Strategy?25
Taking the Right to Notice and Explanation Seriously: The Critical Importance of Evidence and Oversight for Healthcare AI24
Why Stop at a Right to Notice for AI Systems Used in Patient Care? The Need for Greater Specificity23
Invidious Discrimination v. Conscientious Objection: C’mon, a rose is a rose is a rose!23
Conscientious Objection to Aggressive Interventions for Patients in a Vegetative State23
The Perils of AI over-Exceptionalism in Healthcare23
Pathways to Drug Liberalization: Racial Justice, Public Health, and Human Rights22
Why Have Uniform Informed Consent Documents When the Research Volunteers Are So Diverse?22
Focusing on Neutrality When Resolving Religious Conflicts in Pediatric Medical Care22
Controversial Analysis of “Deception” Prevents Adequate Moral Analysis22
A Hub and Spoke Model for Improving Access and Standardizing Ethics Consultations Across a Large Healthcare System21
Expanding Our Thoughts about Autonomy in Relation to Whether We Should Offer Genetic Testing for Nonmedical Traits21
Role of Vulnerability and Control in Prenatal Testing Ethical Decision-Making21
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?20
Beyond Trade-Offs: Autonomy, Effectiveness, Fairness, and Normativity in Risk and Crisis Communication20
Improving Community Engagement and Social Justice in Public Health Policymaking during the COVID Pandemics: Insights from Participatory Action-Research in Western Switzerland20
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits20
“Time Is Brain:” DCDD-NRP Invalidates the Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death20
Reasons in the Loop: The Role of Large Language Models in Medical Co-Reasoning19
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death: Conceptual Challenges19
Ableist Bias Persists Among Bioethicists: Interpreting the Views in Bioethics Survey’s “Disability” Findings19
What Are Patients Doing in the Loop? Patients as Fellow-Workers in the Everyday Use of Medical AI19
NRP Possibly Violates “Do No Harm” and Is Not Worth Risking the Perception That It Does19
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems18
Safety in Numbers and Other Questions from Pierson et al.’s Bioethics Survey18
Does It Matter That Surveyed Bioethicists Are Not Similar to Patients in Clinical Ethics Consultations18
Comparing the Results of Two Surveys on the Views of Bioethicists18
Agent-Regret in Healthcare17
What and For Whom Is Bioethics?17
From Theory to Practice: The Importance of Operationalizing and Measuring Ethical Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy17
Consensus and Solidarity: Protecting All People from Group Harms17
A Clarified Interpretation of Permanence Justifies Death Determination in NRP Protocols17
Letter to the Editor16
Equity or Utility? Considering Social Factors in Pediatric Transplant15
The Authenticity Requirement: Why Using Digital Twins for Achieving Person-Span Extension Goods Can Be Self-Defeating15
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: How Should Family Support Be Considered in Pediatric Transplant Evaluations?15
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare15
Supportive Touch in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy14
Putting the Agency in Agent-Regret14
Regulatory Angels and Technology Demons? Making Sense of Evolving Realities in Health Data Privacy for the Digital Age13
Should the Clinical Ethicist Document Her Complicity in Intentional Deception?12
Please, Don’t Fly Me to the Moon12
Hare’s Archangel, Human Fallibility, and Utilitarian Justification(?) of Deception11
The AI Needed for Ethical Decision Making Does Not Exist11
Special Considerations When Research is Embedded within Community Health Centers11
The Grounds of the Disclosure Requirement for Informed Consent11
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question11
How Can Large Language Models Support the Acquisition of Ethical Competencies in Healthcare?10
Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making10
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Do Clinicians Have a Duty to Participate in Pragmatic Clinical Trials?”10
Design Bioethics and Digital Research Creep10
The Social Value Misconception in Clinical Research10
Putting the Asymmetry Debate in Its Place10
Considering “Respect for Sovereignty” Beyond the Belmont Report and the Common Rule: Ethical and Legal Implications for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples10
Ethical Restraint Use With Incapable Absconding Patients: Goals, Proportionality, and Surrogates10
Machines Like Me: 4 Corollaries for Responsible Use of AI in the Bioethics Classroom10
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails9
What Is the Ethical Goal of Empowering Parents in Emergent Decision-making about Their Premature Newborn?9
“Racialized Disablement” as a Key Heuristic for Addressing Racism in Bioethics8
Being in Good Community: Engagement in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty8
When Parents Don’t Want Their Teenager to be Vaccinated against COVID-19, Who Calls the Shots?8
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge8
The ASBH’s Obligation to Create Cost-Free Basic HEC Training8
Ethical Issues in Using Behavior Contracts to Manage the “Difficult” Patient and Family7
On the Permissibility of Elective Ectogestation7
Not Dead, but Close Enough? You Cannot Have Your Cake and Eat It Too in Satisfying the DDR in cDCD7
A Value-Oriented Framework for Precision Medicine7
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death7
The Underdeveloped “Gift”: Ethics in Implementing Precision Medicine Research7
Metaphysics, Reason, and Religion in Secular Clinical Ethics7
Ethical Aspects of Machine Listening in Healthcare7
ECMO: What Would a Deliberative Public Judge?7
Large Language Models and Inclusivity in Bioethics Scholarship7
Trojan Horses, Clinical Utility, and Parfitian Puzzles7
When Parents Prefer to Defer: Is ‘Deferral’ Always Problematic in Pediatric Decision-Making?6
Ending the Debate Whether State-Mandated Pregnancies are Matters of Bioethics Concern6
Pragmatic Aspects of Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death and Ethical Considerations for Alternative Approaches6
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”6
Aid in Dying Unaided?6
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege6
Emotion as a Signpost in Complicated Pediatric Decision-Making6
Response to Open Peer Commentaries Re: Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and USA6
Donor Rules—Dead and Living6
Beyond Abortion Clinics: How Overturning Roe Will Obstruct Life-Saving Research and Fetal Therapy6
Beyond Words: Reconsidering the Moral Distinction of Action in Consent for Assisted Dying6
Personalizing Care and Communication at the Limits of Technology6
What’s Wrong with Medicalization?6
How Medical Technologies Materialize Oppression6
Executive, Legislative, Judiciary, & Clinic: How the Fall of Roe Will Entrench Clinicians as Agents of the State and Create Ethical Conflicts throughout Medical Practice6
Aid in Dying in Canada and the United States: Are U.S. States Too Cautious?6
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings6
The Ethical Data Practices Framework and Its Implications for Data Privacy Relations between the United States and the European Union6
The Place of Bioethics in Philosophy: Toward a Mutually Constructive Integration5
Personhood Is Still Useful, but Not for Everything5
Putting a Pronouncement about Personhood into Perspective5
Review of Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby, Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics5
Who’s Experience, Which Liability?5
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: How Bioethics Can Learn from Organized Medicine5
Avoiding Exceptionalism and Silver Bullets: Lessons from Public Health Ethics and Alzheimer’s Disease5
Determinations of Competence Ought Not to Be Primarily Grounded in Paternalistic Justifications regarding Welfare5
Political Liberalism and Public Health5
Limitations on the Capability of the FDA to Advise5
Racial Justice and Economic Efficiency Both Require Ending the War on Drugs5
Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and the United States: Lessons Learned from the Case of Archie Battersbee and a Suggestion for Mid-Level Principles to Enha5
What Is Considered “Fair” Depends on the Purposes of Elite Sports5
Evaluating Fairness in Sports: Beyond Testosterone Suppression5
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria5
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents5
Automating Justice: An Ethical Responsibility of Computational Bioethics5
The Nature of Harm: A Wine-Dark Sea5
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients5
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation5
The Importance of Rights to the Argument for the Decriminalization of Drugs5
Ethical Issues in Death by Neurologic Criteria Require Critical Scrutiny: Lack of Engagement with Sound Arguments to Save Medical Dogma5
Re-Framing Moral Distress to Benefit Both Patient and Caregiver5
The Concept and Conceptions of Personhood: The Fallacy of Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby’s Argument5
Undoing Funding Injustices for Bioethics Research on Racial Justice5
Social and Epistemic Justice: Are We Really Including Africa in the Bioethics Discourse?5
E-Cigarettes, the FDA’s Strategic Orientation, and Lessons from the Opioid Crisis5
Bans, Taxes or Product Placement? Applying the Liberal Perfectionist Proviso to Public Health Food Policy5
Allocation of Treatment Slots in Elective Mental Health Care—Are Waiting Lists the Ethically Most Appropriate Option?5
Georgia on My Mind: Daughters, Dementia and Discharge4
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind4
Trauma-Informed Approaches in Healthcare Ethics Consultation: A Missing Element in Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs during the Overdose Crisis?4
E-Cigarettes and the Multiple Responsibilities of the FDA4
Reciprocity’s Baggage4
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics4
Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine: The Post-Authorization Phase4
What Reasons Are Really at Play in Reproduction?4
Germline Genome Editing May Never Have Any Clinical Utility4
What Is a Physician? Navigating Incommensurable Spheres of Role Morality4
What Bioethics Owes Reproductive Justice4
We Need Role Fidelity and Integrity to Avoid Moral Compartmentalization, Not Sphere or Role Moralities4
War, Bioethics, and Public Health4
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?4
Adaptive Machine Learning as Research: Does the Cure Fit the Disease?4
The Artificial Third: Utilizing ChatGPT in Mental Health4
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease4
Potential Iatrogenic Effects of Returning Individual Research Results from Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry4
Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications4
Ethics Education for Healthcare Professionals in the Era of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models: Do We Still Need It?4
The Hidden Costs of ChatGPT: A Call for Greater Transparency4
In Defense of Expert Knowledge in Bioethical Discussions on Human Genome Editing4
Bolder Bioethics: Demanding a Gold Standard in REDI Recommendations4
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?4
Addressing a Missing Link in Emergency Preparedness: New Insights on the Ethics of Care in Contingency Conditions from the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative4
Substituted Judgment and The Paradigm Case Mistake4
Ambivalence: The Patient’s Perspective Counts4
Dobbs and Rights during Ongoing Pregnancy: Connecting the Dots4
Why Exceptional Public Investment in the Development of Vaccines Is Justified for COVID-19, But Not for Other Unmet Medical Needs4
Patient Ineligibility as a Barrier to Participation in Clinical Trials4
Establishing and Defining an Approach to Climate Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics4
On Racist Tools and the Bioethics Lexicon4
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?4
Against Multiplying Clinical Ethics Standards without Necessity: The Case for Parsimony in Evaluating Decision-making Capacity4
Toward a Broader Conception of Equity in Artificial Womb Technology4
Inclusion by Invitation Only? Public Engagement beyond Deliberation in the Governance of Innovative Biotechnology4
Travel to Other States for Abortion after Dobbs4
Genital Modifications in Prepubescent Minors: When May Clinicians Ethically Proceed?4
“Precision Medicine” Is Genomic Medicine4
Health and Data Equity in Public Health Emergency Risk and Crisis Communication (PHERCC)4
How to Use AI Ethically for Ethical Decision-Making4
Challenging the Centrality of Anti-Racism in Bioethics4
Gene Editing vs. Genetic Selection4
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine4
The Need for “Big Bioethics” Research4
Machine Learning-Generated Clinical Data as Collateral Research: A Global Neuroethical Analysis4
In Defense of a More Antinatalist Bioethics4
Ethics, Engagement, and Escalating Interventions4
Virtue Ethics and the Spheres of Morality Framework4
Discerning the Nature of MAMLS: Research, Quality Improvement, or Both?4
Deconstructing Structural Injustices in the Clinic, Classroom, and Boardroom4
Reconfiguring Health: The Importance of Recognizing Embodied Subjectivity and Social Dynamics in Health4
Confronting Moral Stress and Fostering Change with Humanism and Human Dignity3
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option3
Respect for Autonomy Requires a Mental Model3
From Human-in-the-Loop to Human-in-Power3
Informal Coercion Is Both Unavoidable and (Sometimes) Ethically Justifiable3
Physicians’ Professional Role in Clinical Care: AI as a Change Agent3
Adaptive Medical Machine Learning Models Should Not Be Classified as Perpetual Research, but Do Require New Regulatory Solutions3
When Protection From Risk-to-Self Causes Harm: A Brief Analysis of Restraint Use to Prevent Elopement3
Navigating the Ethical Maze in Digital Health Research3
Contingency Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: An Analysis Based on a New Ethical Framework3
Seizing the Opportunity to Improve Ethical Oversight of Clinical Research3
Making Structural Discrimination Visible: A Call for Intersectional Bioethics3
Whose Data, Whose Risk? Omics Privacy Concerns Should be Defined by Individuals, not Researchers3
Decisions on Innovation or Research for Devastating Disease3
You Might Think You’re Being Coerced When You Aren’t—And Vice Versa3
Priority is Not a Proportional, Fitting, or Fair Return for Vaccination3
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: Ensuring Consistency in Ethical Decision-Making3
Near Fatal Opioid Overdose: A Paradigm Case Where Principlism Fails3
A Call for Evidence-Based Clinical Ethics Consultation3
Good Ethics Begin With Good Facts—Vaccination Sensitive Strategies for Scarce Resource Allocation Are Impractical as Well as Unethical3
Moral Distress Is a Systemic Problem Requiring Organizational Solutions3
Acknowledging Complexity and Reimagining IRBs: A Reply to Discussions of the Protection–Inclusion Dilemma3
Disentangling Normativity and Ethics3
A Different Slippery Slope3
The Right to Refusal of Unwanted End-of-Life Interventions for Pregnant Persons: Additional Challenges to Reproductive Rights Post-Roe3
Restrictions on Abortion, Social Justice and the Ethics of Research in Maternal-Fetal Therapy Trials3
Refusal of Dialysis: Context Matters3
Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?3
What is Fair Representation in Research?3
The Role of Law Enforcement in Coercive Psychiatric Interventions3
Researching Those in the Shadows: Undocumented Immigrants, Vulnerability, and the Significance of Research3
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare3
Systems, Stress, and Embodied Inequality in Community Health3
From the Front Lines: The Need for Stakeholder Coalitions in Preserving Reproductive Autonomy3
How to Evaluate an Individual’s Decision Whether to Vaccinate during a Pandemic: Better by a Knowledge Commons than by Luck Egalitarianism3
Algorithms for Ethical Decision-Making in the Clinic: A Proof of Concept3
When “Next of Kin” Isn’t “Who Knows Best”: the Ethics of Choosing a Surrogate Decision Maker3
Moral Distress in Military Medicine: Toward Analysis of, and Approach to Measurement, Prevention and Care3
Making a Case for Appropriate and Humane Treatment of Hamas Belligerents in Israel3
The Two Front War on Reproductive Rights—When the Right to Abortion is Banned, Can the Right to Refuse Obstetrical Interventions Be Far behind?3
Bodily Autonomy & the Patient’s Right to Refuse Medical Care3
“Thanks Doc, But I Prefer to Stay” ̶ Finding Our Way Out of Contentious Hospital Discharge Planning3
Respecting Donor-Recipient Relationships in Research Decision-Making Commentary on: When Living Donor and Kidney Transplant Recipient Are Both Research Subjects3
Getting It Right: How Public Engagement Might (and Might Not) Help Us Determine What Is Equitable in Genomics and Precision Medicine3
Returning Individual Research Results from Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry3
Top Ten New and Needed Expansions of U.S. Medical Aid in Dying Laws3
Distinguishing Moral Stress from Moral Distress: Moving Beyond the Individual to Expose the Systemic Ethical Challenges3
The Need for an Evolving Informed Consent Process in a Fetal Therapy Trial3
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts3
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