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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents118
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?81
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge64
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients59
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question58
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits54
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?50
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings49
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?48
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases46
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind45
War, Bioethics, and Public Health41
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death40
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems39
Agent-Regret in Healthcare37
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards36
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare36
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option32
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
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria27
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics27
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?27
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?26
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”26
What Does True Equality in Assisted Dying Require?25
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology25
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action24
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse23
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts23
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine23
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications23
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege23
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease23
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare23
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails22
What We Owe Those Who Chat Woe: A Relational Lens for Mental Health Apps22
Respect for Readiness22
Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine22
Informed Consensus: The Future of Respect for Persons in Biomedical Research21
Noninvasive Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: A Misplaced Expressive Concern, Tough Policy Choices21
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
When Sanctions Meet Corruption: Reframing Healthcare Access in Russia21
Comparisons Only Yield Valid Mutual Learnings If Based on Accurate Descriptions of the Comparators21
Psychedelic Ethics in Palliative Care20
Knowing You Know Better20
Goldilocks and the Thanatron: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries20
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
Critically Evaluating MAID in Canada Through an Inequities Lens20
All Healthcare Ethics Consultation ServicesShouldMeet Shared Quality Standards20
Medical Interpretation Services: Challenges for LEP Communities19
Centering More than Trauma Experiences: Reflections from Launching a Graduate Course on Bioethics & Racial Justice in Canada19
Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?19
Contingency Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: An Analysis Based on a New Ethical Framework18
Materializing Systemic Racism, Materializing Health Disparities18
Liberalism and Identity17
Making Structural Discrimination Visible: A Call for Intersectional Bioethics17
Decisions on Innovation or Research for Devastating Disease17
Ethical Withdrawal of ECMO Support Over the Objections of Competent Patients16
Human Genome Editing and Identity: The Precariousness of Existence and the Abundance of Argumentative Options16
Medicalized Oppression: Labels of “Violence Risk” in the Electronic Medical Record16
Nurtured Genetics: Prenatal Testing and the Anchoring of Genetic Expectancies16
Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death Violate the Dead Donor Rule?15
Ethical Care Necessitates Synthesizing the Best Available Evidence15
Cultural Competence as New Racism: Working as Intended?15
The Role of Self-Illness Ambiguity and Self-Medication Ambiguity in Clinical Decision-Making15
See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training14
Ethical Responsibilities for Companies That Process Personal Data14
Defining and Defending Personhood: Lessons from the Disease Debate14
Is Transparency about the Line between Life and Death Good for Organ Donation?14
The Postponed Withholding Model: An Autoethnographic Analysis13
OrganEx: What Will It Mean?13
Power in the Pragmatic View13
Materialized Oppression in Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design13
How Ethics Can Better Anticipate the Consequences of Emerging Biotechnologies12
Diversifying the Bioethics Funding Landscape: The Case of TMS12
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 Wrong Argument for a Bad Law12
Instruments of Moral Distress: An Analysis Based on Scientificity and Application Value11
For Bioethics to Center Justice, We Must Reconsider Funding, Training, and the Taxonomy of Bioethics11
A Paradigm of Investigator Duty to Multiple Stakeholder Participants11
Empowering Queer Data Justice11
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 Healthcare10
Is the Right to a Healthy Environment Enough? Reckoning with a History of Failures in Chemical Valley10
Prudently Evaluating Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems9
Rare Disease, Advocacy, and Caregiver Burnout9
Advocating for a Context Specific Approach to Tackle Inequities9
Toward Relational Diversity for AI in Psychotherapy9
Measuring Value with Volume9
What Can Committees Demonstrate That Professional Ethicists Can’t? Impartial Review with Adequate Due Process8
Addressing Environmental Injustices Requires a Public Health Ethics and/or Human Rights Perspective8
Beware the Jackalopes8
Agent-Regret in Healthcare: Toward a More Precise and Empirical-Based Look into the Dynamics of Agent-Regret Experiences8
Should the Use of Adaptive Machine Learning Systems in Medicine be Classified as Research?8
Change the Law to Optimize Organ Donation8
Law Enforcement Interventionism as Determinant of Decision-Making Among Resuscitated Opioid Users8
Withdrawal of ECMO Support over the Objections of a Capacitated Patient can be Appropriate8
Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy8
Ethical Pathways: Transitioning Whole-Eye Transplantation Into Clinical Practice8
Bioethicists Tomorrow: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Future Directions8
Psychedelic Ethics Beside Institutions8
Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care7
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
Co-Reasoning and Epistemic Inequality in AI Supported Medical Decision-Making7
Differences in Degree-not-Kind-of Responsibility within Conversational Artificial Intelligence7
Current Medical Aid-in-Dying Laws Discriminate against Individuals with Disabilities7
ChatGPT’s Responses to Dilemmas in Medical Ethics: The Devil is in the Details7
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
An Opportunity to Reconsider Fiduciary Framing in Medicine7
The Slippery Slope Argument and Assisted Death: Which Approach to MAiD Does It Really Support?7
From CRISPR to Conscience: Ethical Dilemmas in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection7
An All-Too-Human Enterprise7
You Don’t Have to Be Bad to Work Here: Sustaining Ideals Inside Healthcare Institutions7
The Dead Donor Rule Does Require that the Donor is Dead7
There Is Only One Sphere of Morality7
Different MAiD Laws, Different MAiD Outcomes: Expected Rather Than “Disturbing”7
Early AI Lifecycle Co-Reasoning: Ethics Through Integrated and Diverse Team Science6
Protecting Health Privacy through Reasonable Inferences6
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
The Need for an Ethics of Care in the Contingency Response to Public Health Emergencies6
Who Is Responsible for Promoting Equity in Rare Disease Research?6
The Complex Relationship between Disability Discrimination and Frailty Scores6
A Surgeon’s Perspective From the Sharp End of Surgical Innovation6
Correction6
Stewardship or Punishment? Ethical Analysis of Transplant Candidacy for a Child from a Low-Resourced Family6
Complexity of Establishing “Reasonability” in Conscientious Objection Claims6
Equipoise and Personal Experience: Maintaining Objectivity in Psychedelic Research6
Enhancing Decision-Making Capacity Assessments Beyond Outlier Cases: A Multi-Faceted Health Care Systems Approach6
The Concept of Personal Utility in Genomic Testing: Three Ethical Tensions6
Scapegoat-in-the-Loop? Human Control over Medical AI and the (Mis)Attribution of Responsibility6
Beyond Consent: The MAMLS in the Room5
Strategies for Data Ethics Governance: Elevating Patient and Community Perspectives5
Beyond Incommensurability and Appropriateness: Integrating theTelosof Medicine and Addressing Compartmentalization in the Spheres of Morality Framework5
Environmental Justice: A Missing Core Tenet of Global Health5
Behavior Contracts and Lessons from Parenting “Rotten” Kids5
Solidarity as an Aspirational Basis for Partnership with Tribal Communities5
The End of Personhood5
(Ir)Relevance of Ethics Committees: The Continued Value of Hospital Ethics Committees in Programs with Professional Ethicist Staffing5
Artificial Womb Technology, Catholic Health Care, and Social Justice5
Using Algorithms to Make Ethical Judgements: METHAD vs. the ADC Model5
The Brainstem Criterion of Death and Accurate Syndromic Diagnosis5
The Bilingual Patient’s Dilemma: Same Question, Different Answer5
Digital Simulacra: Circumventing Diversity and Inclusion5
Bias and Epistemic Injustice in Conversational AI5
Bioethics and the Power Asymmetry Contextualizing Experience5
A Knower Without a Voice: Co-Reasoning with Machine Learning5
Conscience Clauses and Ideological Bias5
Hospital Ethics Committees and Consultants: How Do Clinicians Perceive Their Utility in Resolving Disagreements About Life-Sustaining Treatments?5
Enrolling Foster Youth in Clinical Trials: Avoiding the Harm of Exclusion5
Racism and the Textures of Visibility5
Bounded Justice, Inclusion, and the Hyper/Invisibility of Race in Precision Medicine5
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
Maternal-Fetal Therapy: The (Psycho)Social Dilemma5
Ethically Navigating the Murky Waters of “Contingency Standards of Care”5
Protecting Privacy While Optimizing the Use of (Health)Data: The Importance of Measures and Safeguards5
Bioethics Consultation and First-Order Moral Reasoning: Leaving Philosophy at the Hospital Doors5
Lessons Learned from Reproductive Justice: Communication with the Public to Earn and Maintain Trust of New and Existing Innovations5
Building Trauma-Informed Hospital Ethics Cultures5
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Developing a Reflexive, Anticipatory, and Deliberative Approach to Unanticipated Discoveries: Ethical Lessons from iBlastoids”5
Wither Vulnerability? The Over/Under Protection Dilemma and Research Equity5
Bioethics Theory-Building for Public Health5
Lost in Gestation: On Fetonates, Perinates, and Gestatelings4
The Benefits of Experience Greatly Exceed the Liabilities4
Accommodating Aid-in-Dying Safeguards for Patients with Neurologic Disease4
Dementia, Frailty and Triage in a Pandemic4
Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, and the Prevention of Forced and Coerced Surgeries4
Epistemic Value of Digital Simulacra for Patients4
The Potential Role of Nudging in Expanded Noninvasive Prenatal Testing4
Applying the Harm Principle to Elder Care4
Common Rule Revisions to Govern Machine Learning on Indigenous Data: Implementing the Expectations4
The Unified Brain-Based Determination of Death Conceptually Justifies Death Determination in DCDD and NRP Protocols4
AUTOGEN and the Ethics of Co-Creation with Personalized LLMs—Reply to the Commentaries4
The Patient Preference Predictor: A Timely Boost for Personalized Medicine4
Rare Disease, Advocacy and Justice: Intersecting Disparities in Research and Clinical Care4
Another Cautionary Lesson from COVID Research4
Improving Ethics Support: Seeing and Organizing Ethics Support Differently4
Cultivating Patient-Centered Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Transparency: Considerations for AI Documentation4
Sorry, Not Sorry: Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued4
Is Gene Editing Harmless? Two Arguments for Gene Editing4
Transforming Behavior Contracts Into Collaborative Commitments With Families4
The Dialectics of Racial Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility under the Mestizaje Discourse in Latin America4
Academic and Private Partnership to Improve Informed Consent Forms Using a Data Driven Approach4
Social Value, Beneficial Information, and Obligations to Participants in a Trial of Novel COVID-19 Vaccines4
Erasing Blackness From Bioethics4
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Toward a Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases4
“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
From Data to Harm: Exploring Ethical and Social Implications of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits4
Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: What Can be Learned from a Historical Analysis of General Anesthesia and Surgery?4
A Justice-Based Defense of a Litmus Test4
Navigating Tensions Between Law and Ethics in Surrogate Decision Making4
A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)4
Making Ethical Considerations Transparent in the Formulation of Public Health Guidance4
Supported Decisions as the Patient’s Own?4
The Intrinsic Value of Public Deliberation in the Governance of Human Genome Editing4
Privacy, Health, and Race Equity in the Digital Age4
Bridge or Destination: Ethical Complexity, Emotional Unrest4
Promising Practices for Inclusive Precision Medicine Research and the Contribution to Public and Population Health4
Research on the Clinical Translation of Health Care Machine Learning: Ethicists Experiences on Lessons Learned4
Personal but Necessarily Predictive? Developing a Bioethics Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Decision-Making Tools4
Not All Publics Are the Same—A Note on Power, Diversity, and Lived Expertise in Public Deliberation4
Clarifying the Philosophical and Legal Foundations of Dobbs4
Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria4
Health Disparities, Systemic Racism, and Failures of Cultural Competence: Authors’ Response to Commentaries4
Wrongful Birth: AI-Tools for Moral Decisions in Clinical Care in the Absence of Disability Ethics4
The Human and Humanity that Differentiate Withholding from Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy: An ECMO Bridge to Nowhere4
Eliminating or Calibrating the Role of Chance? Acute Resource Scarcity as a Challenge for Luck Egalitarianism4
Health Equity Frameworks in Bioethical Perspective: Systemic Interventions and Innovative Justice4
Emerging Paradigms for Ethical Review of Research Using Artificial Intelligence4
“Essentially as One of Fact to Be Determined by Physicians”: Applying Lessons Learned From Brain Death to Normothermic Regional Perfusion4
“I Can Decide for Myself:” Adolescents Who Wish to Consent for Covid-19 Vaccination4
Considering Reprogenomics in the Ethical Future of Fetal Therapy Trials4
“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
Physician Responsibility to Discuss Palliative Unproven Therapies With Out-of-Option Patients4
My Story is Traumatic, You Probably Would Not Understand4
Reestablishing Circulation in Donors: To What Degree Does It Matter?4
DCD Donors Are Dying, but Not Dead3
Putting the Asymmetry Debate in Its Place3
Challenging the Centrality of Anti-Racism in Bioethics3
Comparing the Results of Two Surveys on the Views of Bioethicists3
Postponed Withholding: Harmful for the Infant and Increasing the Complexity of Decision-Making3
Capacity, Rationality, and the Promotion of Autonomy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Refusals of Care After Opioid Poisoning3
Reconfiguring Health: The Importance of Recognizing Embodied Subjectivity and Social Dynamics in Health3
What Is a Physician? Navigating Incommensurable Spheres of Role Morality3
Same Same but Different: On Psychedelic Exceptionalism3
Place-Based Thoughtfulness and Decision-Making in Gene Editing and Genetic Selection3
The Authenticity Requirement: Why Using Digital Twins for Achieving Person-Span Extension Goods Can Be Self-Defeating3
Appreciating Language in Bioethics: From Theory to Practice3
Trojan Horses, Clinical Utility, and Parfitian Puzzles3
Who’s Experience, Which Liability?3
What Bioethics Owes Reproductive Justice3
Ethics, Engagement, and Escalating Interventions3
REDI in Bioethics Cannot Be Achieved Without the Promotion of Anti-Ableism3
A Heuristic for Notifying Patients About AI: From Institutional Declarations to Informed Consent3
The Social Value Misconception in Clinical Research3
Current Ethical Considerations of Human Whole Eye Transplantation is Short-Sighted3
Invidious Discrimination v. Conscientious Objection: C’mon, a rose is a rose is a rose!3
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
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