The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 24, Issue 1 (2024)

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By Statute or by Common Law? The Legal Determination of Death
Samuel A. Thumma, Eric Weeks & Nita A. Farahany
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Target Article

Target Article
The End of Personhood
Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby
Pages: 3-12
Published online: 12 Jan 2023
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Article Commentary
Putting a Pronouncement about Personhood into Perspective
David DeGrazia
Pages: 13-15
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Bioethics Should Not Be Constrained by Linguistic Oddness or Social Offense
Julian Koplin, Tessa Holzman, Neera Bhatia & Julian Savulescu
Pages: 15-18
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Even Offense Can Be a ‘Normatively Substantive Problem’ in Bioethics: Specificity and Relationality as Alternatives to ‘Personhood’
Eva Feder Kittay
Pages: 18-20
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Personhood and the Debate about the Beginning and End of Life
Jin K. Park & Robert Truog
Pages: 20-23
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
A Qualified Defense of Personhood in Bioethics
Andreas Kuersten & Tanner Mathison
Pages: 23-26
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The End of (Lockean-Kantian) Personhood
Jason T. Eberl
Pages: 27-29
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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The Ends of Personhood
Søren Holm & Jonathan Lewis
Pages: 30-32
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Time for Bioethics to End Talk of Personhood (But Only in the Philosophers’ Sense)
Vilius Dranseika, Ivars Neiders & Brian D. Earp
Pages: 32-35
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Personhood and the Importance of Philosophical Clarity
Karola V. Kreitmair
Pages: 35-38
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Reconceptualizing Personhood in Bioethics and Law: A Spectrum-Based Approach
Dov Greenbaum
Pages: 38-40
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Defining and Defending Personhood: Lessons from the Disease Debate
Peter H. Schwartz
Pages: 41-43
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The Concept and Conceptions of Personhood: The Fallacy of Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby’s Argument
Hon-Lam Li
Pages: 43-45
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
For Analytics Beyond “Personhood,” Bioethics Should Look Toward Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Stephen Molldrem, Jacob D. Moses, Alberto Aparicio & Vishnu Subrahmanyam
Pages: 46-48
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Personhood and the Public’s Definitions of a Human
John H. Evans
Pages: 49-51
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The End of Personification: The Mereological Fallacy in Science Communication on Brain Organoids
Sietske A. L. van Till & Eline M. Bunnik
Pages: 51-54
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Open Access
Article Commentary
Beyond the Personhood: An In-Depth Analysis of Moral Considerations in Human Brain Organoid Research
Shu Ishida & Tsutomu Sawai
Pages: 54-56
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Beyond Personhood: Ethical Paradigms in the Generative Artificial Intelligence Era
Zohar Elyoseph, Dorit Hadar Shoval & Inbar Levkovich
Pages: 57-59
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Personhood Beyond the West
Nancy S. Jecker & Caesar A. Atuire
Pages: 59-62
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Open Access
Article Commentary
Looking Back and Forward: Relational African Bioethics and Why Personhood is Not Dead
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues & Motsamai Molefe
Pages: 62-64
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Rethinking Personhood through the Lens of Life Forms, Communality, and Moral Agency
Victor Chidi Wolemonwu, Piyali Mitra & Adetula Bolanle
Pages: 64-67
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Language and Terminology in Discussions of Moral Status
Chun Mun Loke
Pages: 67-69
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Prospects for Engineering Personhood
Max F. Kramer
Pages: 69-71
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Personhood Is Still Useful, but Not for Everything
Andrew Garland
Pages: 72-74
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The End of Personhood Seems to Be Greatly Exaggerated
Marcin Paweł Ferdynus
Pages: 74-76
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The Richness of Personhood
Becket Gremmels
Pages: 76-78
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Target Article

Target Article
An Overview of Ethical Issues Raised by Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and a Comparison to Management of These Challenges in the USA
Ariane Lewis
Pages: 79-96
Published online: 12 Jan 2023
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Article Commentary
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 Enhance an Ongoing Dialogue
Erin Paquette
Pages: 97-100
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The Brainstem Criterion of Death and Accurate Syndromic Diagnosis
James L. Bernat
Pages: 100-103
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Parents Don’t Know Best in the United Kingdom
Lainie Friedman Ross
Pages: 103-106
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Parents Have a Right to Refuse Brain Death Testing, Including Apnea Testing
Alexander A. Kon
Pages: 106-108
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
No Country for Old Laws: Why the Effort to Revise the UDDA Reveals the Social Weakness of Medicine in the US
Adam Omelianchuk
Pages: 108-110
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Time for Federal Standards on Death Determination: The National Determination of Death Act
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Pages: 111-113
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Brainstem Death Is Dead. Long Live Brainstem Death!
Andrew McGee & Dale Gardiner
Pages: 114-116
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The Advantages of the Higher Brain Criterion for Determining Death
Ben Sarbey
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria
Aasim I. Padela & Mehrunisha Suleman
Pages: 118-121
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Ethical Issues in Death by Neurologic Criteria Require Critical Scrutiny: Lack of Engagement with Sound Arguments to Save Medical Dogma
Ari R. Joffe
Pages: 121-123
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
The Brain Death Criterion in Light of Value-Based Disagreement Versus Biomedical Uncertainty
Daniel Martin, Gonzalo Díaz-Cobacho & Ivar R. Hannikainen
Pages: 123-126
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Consent, Consultation, or Authorization Is Required for DNC Testing in the UK
Barry Lyons & Mary Donnelly
Pages: 126-128
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Case Report

Case Report
Responding to a Nurse’s Perceived Moral Distress Prompting an Ethics Consultation Request
Anita Tarzian
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Moral Distress and the Marginalization of Nurses
Carina Fourie & Georgina Campelia
Pages: 132-134
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
“Please, Don’t Make Me Do This”: The Role of the Ethics Consultant in Responding to and Mitigating Moral Distress
Steven Bocchese & Georgina Morley
Pages: 134-137
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Re-Framing Moral Distress to Benefit Both Patient and Caregiver
Emily Trancik & Mark Repenshek
Pages: 137-139
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Case Report

Case Report
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?
Leah Eisenberg
Pages: 140-141
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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A Failure to Care or a Failure to Communicate? Exploring Concerns about Decision Maker Suitability
Sarah J. Russe
Pages: 142-143
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Applying the Harm Principle to Elder Care
Jaime Konerman-Sease & Justin Penny
Pages: 144-145
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Article Commentary
Protection through Partnering: Applying Social Work Theory to Clinical Ethics in a Case of Suspected Abuse
Robert Sebesta
Pages: 146-148
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Correspondence

Reply
Response to Open Peer Commentaries Re: Medicolegal Challenges to Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United Kingdom and USA
Ariane Lewis
Pages: W1-W3
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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