Medical Ethics
Overview
Medical Ethics involves the study of moral principles and decision-making in healthcare. It addresses ethical issues related to patient care, such as consent, confidentiality, and end-of-life decisions, guiding healthcare professionals in making morally sound choices in medical practice.
Overview
Name
Medical Ethics
Journals
163
Journals
| Journal | h-index | |
| 1. | Journal of Business Ethics : Jbe | 253 |
| 2. | Science, Technology & Human Values | 92 |
| 3. | Journal of Medical Ethics | 87 |
| 4. | Philosophy & Public Affairs | 81 |
| 5. | Nursing Ethics | 76 |
| 6. | The Hastings Center Report | 72 |
| 7. | The American Journal of Bioethics : Ajob | 71 |
| 8. | Bioethics | 67 |
| 9. | The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics : a Journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics | 66 |
| 10. | Bmc Medical Ethics | 60 |
Recent Articles
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Liu H, Liu Y, Zhao Y, Ma Y, Chen Q, Xu H, et al.
BMC Med Ethics
. 2025 Mar;
26(1):37.
PMID: 40089739
Background: This review examines global human genetic resources management, focusing on genetic data policies and repositories in high- and middle-low-income countries. Methods: A comprehensive search strategy was employed across multiple...
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Battisti D, Mannelli C
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40089616
The structural scarcity of healthcare resources has deeply challenged their fair distribution, prompting the need for allocation criteria. Long under the spotlight of the bioethical debate with an extraordinary peak...
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van Hooff L, Merz E, Kidane Gebremeskel A, de Jong J, Burchell G, Lunshof J
BMC Med Ethics
. 2025 Mar;
26(1):36.
PMID: 40087738
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) and Diamond-Blackfan anemia syndrome (DBAS) are two hereditary blood diseases that present significant challenges to patients, their caregivers, and the healthcare system. Both conditions cause...
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Chen X, Wu C, Ji W, Bai D, Chen H, Hou C, et al.
BMC Med Ethics
. 2025 Mar;
26(1):35.
PMID: 40087630
Background: Nursing ethical decision-making ability is a core competency of nurses. However, no tool has been developed to measure the ethical decision-making ability of nurses in China. Therefore, we aimed...
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Katz R, Graham S, Buchman D
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40087254
It has been difficult historically for physicians, patients, and philosophers alike to quantify pain given that pain is commonly understood as an individual and subjective experience. The process of measuring...
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Tsiakiri L
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40087253
The prevalence of non-communicable diseases, the related increased medical costs, and the recent public health emergency bring out more forcefully pre-existing dilemmas of distributive justice in the healthcare context. Under...
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Coughlin C, King N, McEwan E
Ethics Hum Res
. 2025 Mar;
47(2):41-47.
PMID: 40084679
The creation and study of brain organoids may hold significant promise for understanding brain functions, disorders, and diseases. This research may also raise novel considerations and ethical concerns, but it...
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Masciari C
AJOB Neurosci
. 2025 Mar;
:1-13.
PMID: 40085683
In this paper I argue that by using methods of encouragement, derived from the fields of social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral economics, healthcare workers can potentially provide their patients...