The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 24, Issue 7 (2024)

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Ethical Complexities in Utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Surrogate Decision Making
Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Faith E. Fletcher, Lauren Taylor, Ryan H. Nelson, Bryanna Moore, Brendan Saloner & Peter A. Ubel
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Health Consequences of an Ideological Perspective on Population Growth in Iran
Anonymous
Pages: 3-5
Published online: 22 May 2024
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The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelics Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement
Edward Jacobs, Brian D. Earp, Paul S. Appelbaum, Lori Bruce, Ksenia Cassidy, Yuria Celidwen, Katherine Cheung, Sean K. Clancy, Neşe Devenot, Jules Evans, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Phoebe Friesen, Albert Garcia Romeu, Neil Gehani, Molly Maloof, Olivia Marcus, Ole Martin Moen, Mayli Mertens, Sandeep M. Nayak, Tehseen Noorani, Kyle Patch, Sebastian Porsdam-Mann, Gokul Raj, Khaleel Rajwani, Keisha Ray, William Smith, Daniel Villiger, Neil Levy, Roger Crisp, Julian Savulescu, Ilina Singh & David B. Yaden
Pages: 6-12
Published online: 02 May 2024
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A Personalized Patient Preference Predictor for Substituted Judgments in Healthcare: Technically Feasible and Ethically Desirable
Brian D. Earp, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Jemima Allen, Sabine Salloch, Vynn Suren, Karin Jongsma, Matthias Braun, Dominic Wilkinson, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Annette Rid, David Wendler & Julian Savulescu
Pages: 13-26
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Artificial Intelligence, Digital Self, and the “Best Interests” Problem
Jeffrey Todd Berger
Pages: 27-29
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Personal but Necessarily Predictive? Developing a Bioethics Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Decision-Making Tools
Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
Pages: 29-31
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Parrots at the Bedside: Making Surrogate Decisions with Stochastic Strangers
Jonathan Herington & Benzi Kluger
Pages: 32-34
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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The Patient Preference Predictor: A Timely Boost for Personalized Medicine
Nikola Biller-Andorno, Andrea Ferrario & Armin Biller
Pages: 35-38
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Weighing Patient Preferences: Lessons for a Patient Preferences Predictor
Ben Schwan
Pages: 38-40
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor: A Harmful and Misleading Solution Losing Sight of the Problem It Claims to Solve
Heidi Mertes
Pages: 41-42
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Potentially Perilous Preference Parrots: Why Digital Twins Do Not Respect Patient Autonomy
Georg Starke & Ralf J. Jox
Pages: 43-45
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
The Problematic “Existence” of Digital Twins: Human Intention and Moral Decision
Jeffrey P. Bishop
Pages: 45-47
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Predicting Patient Preferences with Artificial Intelligence: The Problem of the Data Source
Lukas J. Meier
Pages: 48-50
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Machine Learning Algorithms in the Personalized Modeling of Incapacitated Patients’ Decision Making—Is It a Viable Concept?
Tomasz Rzepiński, Ewa Deskur-Śmielecka & Michał Chojnicki
Pages: 51-53
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Respect for Autonomy Requires a Mental Model
Nada Gligorov & Pierce Randall
Pages: 53-55
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Can P4 Support Family Involvement and Best Interests in Surrogate Decision-Making?
Angela Ballantyne & Rochelle Style
Pages: 56-58
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
As an AI Model, I Cannot Replace Human Dialogue Processes. However, I Can Assist You in Identifying Potential Alternatives
Lucas Gutiérrez-Lafrentz, Constanza Micolich V.Fernando Manríquez V.
Pages: 58-60
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Social Coercion, Patient Preferences, and AI-Substituted Judgments
Christopher A. Riddle
Pages: 60-62
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Personalized Patient Preference Predictors Are Neither Technically Feasible nor Ethically Desirable
Nathaniel Sharadin
Pages: 62-65
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Target Article

Target Article
Rationing, Responsibility, and Vaccination during COVID-19: A Conceptual Map
Jin K. Park & Ben Davies
Pages: 66-79
Published online: 27 Apr 2023
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Article Commentary
Fairly Incorporating Vaccination Status into Scarce Resource Allocation Frameworks
Govind Persad & Emily A. Largent
Pages: 80-83
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Good Ethics Begin With Good Facts—Vaccination Sensitive Strategies for Scarce Resource Allocation Are Impractical as Well as Unethical
Anuj B. Mehta & Matthew K. Wynia
Pages: 83-86
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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The Ethics of Using Vaccination Status as a Rationing Criterion: Luck Egalitarianism and Discrimination
Lydia Tsiakiri & Andreas Albertsen
Pages: 86-88
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Justice Pluralism during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rosamond Rhodes
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Vexing Vaccine Ethics: Denying ICU Care to Vaccine Refusers
Leonard M. Fleck
Pages: 92-94
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Vaccination-Sensitive Healthcare Rationing: Overlooked Conditions, Translational Ethics, and Climate-Related Challenges
Kristine Bærøe & Cornelius Wrigth Cappelen
Pages: 94-96
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Vaccine-Sensitive Allocation – Another Divide to Divide Us?
Joelle Robertson-Preidler & Olivia Schuman
Pages: 97-99
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Harm-Prevention Arguments are Easier to Confuse Than to Rebut
Christopher Robertson
Pages: 100-101
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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How to Evaluate an Individual’s Decision Whether to Vaccinate during a Pandemic: Better by a Knowledge Commons than by Luck Egalitarianism
Benjamin Gregg
Pages: 101-103
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Priority is Not a Proportional, Fitting, or Fair Return for Vaccination
Elizabeth Fenton
Pages: 104-106
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Is Resource Allocation that is Sensitive to Vaccination Status Coercive? Who Cares?
Tess Johnson
Pages: 106-108
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Responsibility - Crime, and Punishment: Why We Should Not Allocate Intensive Care Based on Vaccination Status
Samia A. Hurst
Pages: 109-111
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Article Commentary
Against a New Wave of Vaccine Apartheid: Reconceptualizing Justice in Vaccine-Sensitive Rationing
Nishita Pondugula, Christian Garcia Hernandez & Roberto Sirvent
Pages: 111-114
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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On the Differing Role of Counterexamples in Philosophical Theory and Health Policy
Gerard Vong
Pages: 114-117
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Should SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination be Required for Heart Transplant Listing
Seth Hollander & Danton Char
Pages: 117-119
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Eliminating or Calibrating the Role of Chance? Acute Resource Scarcity as a Challenge for Luck Egalitarianism
Jed Adam Gross
Pages: 120-122
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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When “Next of Kin” Isn’t “Who Knows Best”: the Ethics of Choosing a Surrogate Decision Maker
Leah R. Eisenberg
Pages: 123-124
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Who Should Decide When the Patient Can’t: When Ethics and Law Collide
Theresa C. McCruden
Pages: 125-126
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Navigating Tensions Between Law and Ethics in Surrogate Decision Making
Ryan H. Nelson
Pages: 127-128
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Dealer’s Choice?: Choosing Among Surrogate Decision Makers with Different Decisions and Knowledge of the Patient
Michael Todd Huber
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?
Anita Tarzian
Pages: 132-134
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of Youth Boarding in the Emergency Department: Strategies for Respecting Developing Autonomy While Also Reducing Risk
Mackenzie S. Sommerhalder, Rebecca R. Seltzer, David L. Meyers, B. Simone Thompson & Shannon Barnett
Pages: 135-139
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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Adolescent Boarding in the ED: Issues of Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, and Distributive Justice
John C. Moskop & Arthur R. Derse
Pages: 139-143
Published online: 24 Jun 2024
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