For journal articles and book reviews published in academic journals ranking was based on JCR first and if ranking was unavailable at JCR, ranking was based on SJR. In special cases where ranking in the field of philosophy at SJR was more relevant than ranking in JCR, reference to SJR has also been made. For articles appearing in medico-legal journals, ranking was based on the list in the field Health, Medicine, Psychology and Psychiatry according to Washington & Lee Law Journals Ranking. Citation numbers are derived from google scholar.

Scientific Books (Refereed)

Authored Books – Published

1) Sperling, D. (2006). Management of post-mortem pregnancy: Legal and philosophical aspects,178 pp., Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, [The book is ranked “B” under the SENSE ranking of academic publishers]. The book is cited 11 times (excluding reviews)

Reviews:

Rebecca Bennett, 15(2) Medical Law Review, 268-271 (2007)

Michael Barilan, 12(1) Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy 112 (2009)

2) Sperling, D, (2008). Posthumous interests: Legal and ethical perspectives, 273 pages. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [The book is ranked “A” under the SENSE ranking of academic publishers]. The book is cited 69 times (excluding reviews)

Reviews:

T.M. Wilkinson, Journal of Value Inquiry, 43(4): 531-535 (2009)

James Taylor, Metaphilosophy, 41(5): 727-731 (2010)

3) Sperling, D. (2019). Suicide tourism: Understanding the legal, philosophical and socio-political dimensions, 224 pages. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press [The book is ranked “A” under the SENSE ranking of academic publishers].

Reviews:

D.A. Jones, The New Bioethics, DOI: 10.1080/20502877.2020.1767922 (2020)

W. Sumner, Bioethics, DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12741 (2020)

K. Carrigan, Sociology of Health & Illness, DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13151 (2020)

G. Williams, Medical Law Review, 633-641 (2020).

** Sperling, D. (forthcoming, 2026). The role of emotions in ethics and law: Compassion at end of life as a test case. University of Toronto Press.

Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Published

Kirby, M., Magnus, R., Ramon Cossio Diaz,, J., Sperling, D., & Verges, C. (2016). Casebook on bioethics for judges. Haifa, Israel: Israel National Commission for UNESCO. 131 pages.

*Josefsberg Ben-Yehoshua, L., Sperling, D., & Ran, A. (Eds.) (2021), Ethics and panic in the world of information(al) sciences, copyrights and academic publication. Tel Aviv: MOFET Institute. 197 pages.

**Gallagher, A., Jago, R., Monteverde, S., Morley, G., Peter, E., Sperling, D., Suhonen, R. (forthcoming, 2025). Handbook of nursing ethics. Routledge.

**Mitrović, V., Riklikienė, O., Sperling, D. (forthcoming, 2025). Advanced directives in dementia care: Cross-National examinations. Springer.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Published

Sperling, D. (2004) From the dead to the unborn: Is there an ethical duty to save life? Medicine and Law, 23(3), 567-586.

Sperling, D. (2004) Breaking through the silence: The illegality of performing resuscitation procedures on the newly-dead. Annals of Health Law, 13(2), 393-426.

Sperling, D. (2004). Maternal brain-death. American Journal of Law and Medicine, 30(4), 453-500.

Sperling, D. (2005) Do pregnant women have (living) will? Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, 8(2), 331-342.

Sperling, D. (2007) Like lilies in clear water: On the law and philosophy of law of Justice Mishael Hechin. Netanya Academic College Law Review, 6, 445-460 [in Hebrew].

Sperling, D. (2008) Conscience, principled refusal and ethics of refusal to provide treatment to a patient’s request. Harefuah, 147(5), 398-402 [in Hebrew]

Sperling, D. (2008) The Brain-Respiratory Death Act, 2008: Some comments to the new law. The Journal of Medicine and Law, 38, 207-209 [in Hebrew].

Sperling, D.(2008) Law and bioethics: A rights-based relationship and its troubling implications. Current Legal Issues, 11, 52-78.

Sperling, D. (2009) On wrongful birth and the reasoning behind the reasons to terminate pregnancy: Some reflections following X v. The state of Israel Hamishpat, 27, 34-50 [in Hebrew]

Sperling, D. (2009) Israel’s new Brain-Respiratory Death Act: One step forward or two steps backward? Reviews in the Neurosciences, 20(3-4), 299-306.

Sperling, D. (2009) From Iran to Latin America: Must prenatal diagnosis be provided with abortion for congenital abnormalities? American Journal of Bioethics, 9(8), 61-63.

Sperling, D. (2010) Food law, ethics and food safety regulation: Roles, justifications and expected limits Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 23, 267-278

Sperling, D. (2010) Commanding the ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’ directive: Reproductive law and policy in Israel. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 19(3), 363-371

Sperling, D., & Simon Y. (2010) Attitudes and policies regarding access to fertility care and assisted reproductive technologies in Israel. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 21(7), 854-861.

Sperling, D. (2011) Review of recent trends regarding the status and contribution of HMOs committees for exceptional cases to access and quality of medical care. The Journal of Medicine and Law, 44, 26-36 [in Hebrew]

Sperling, D. (2011) “Male and Female He Created Them”: Procreative liberty, its conceptual deficiencies and the legal right to access fertility care of males. International Journal of Law in Context, 7(3), 375-400.

Sperling, D. (2011) The therapeutic triumph: Making poor claims and offering a revised conceptualization to justify embryo selection. Ethical Perspectives, 18(3), 407-440.

Sperling, D. (2011) Bringing life from death: Is there a good justification for posthumous cloning? Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics doi:10.4172/2155-9627.S1- 001 s1 – s3.

Sperling, D. (2012) & Cohen N. The influence of the Israeli State Economy Arrangement Law and Supreme Court decisions on health policy and status of the right to health in Israel – A Neo-Institutional analysis. Hukim, 4, 153-236. [in Hebrew]

Sperling, D. (2012) Socializing the public: Invoking Hannah Arendt’s critique of modernity to evaluate reproductive technologies. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 15(1), 53-60.

Sperling, D., & Gurman, G. (2012) Factors encouraging and inhibiting organ donation in Israel: The public view and the contribution of legislation and public policy. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9(4), 479-497.

Sperling, D. (2013). The right to know one’s genetic origin: Are gamete donations and misattributed paternity cases alike? American Journal of Bioethics, 13(5), 60-63.

Sperling, D. (2014) Needs, expectations and public knowledge concerning services outside the medical basket: A lesson from Israel. Health Policy, 117, 247-256.

Sperling, D. (2014). Whose life is it anyway? Odyssey, 25, 44-51 [in Hebrew]

Garasic M., & Sperling D. (2015). Mitochondrial replacement theory and parenthood. Global Bioethics, 26(3-4), 198-205.

Sperling, D. (2017). (Re)Disclosing physician financial interests: Rebuilding trust or making unreasonable burdens on physicians? Medicine, Healthcare & Philosophy, 20(2), 179-186.

Sperling, D. & Cohen, N. (2018). A neo-institutional analysis of the hidden interaction between the supreme court and the government: The right to healthcare in Israel as a test-case. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 7(1), 71-86.

Sperling, D. (2019). Revising the requirement of informed consent in an era of privatization, managed care and ACOs: Implications for bioethics and the connection between law and ethics. Journal of Comparative and International Aging Law & Policy, 10, 45-114.

*Sperling, D. (2021). Training nurses to better deal with ethical dilemmas in disasters. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.144

Sperling, D. & Pikkel, R.B. (2020). Promoting patients’ rights through hospital accreditation. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-020-00405-1

Sperling, D. (2021). Ethical dilemmas, perceived risk, and motivation among nurses during the COVID-19 outbreak. Nursing Ethics https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733020956376

Sperling, D. (2020). Should a Patient Who Is Pregnant and Brain Dead Receive Life Support, Despite Objection From Her Appointed Surrogate? American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, 22(9), E1005-E1010

Sperling, D. (2020). Nurses’ attitudes regarding ethical dilemmas, risk perception and motivation to provide care during the COVID-19 outbreak. Body Knowledge, 18, 6-11 [in Hebrew].

Sperling, D. (2021). “Like a Sheriff in a Small Town”: Status, Roles, and Challenges of Ethics Committees in Academic Colleges of Education. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/15562646211005253

Sperling, D. (2021). Nurses’ Challenges, Concerns and Unfair Requirements During the COVID-19 Outbreak. Nursing Ethics, 28(7-8), 1096- 1110. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09697330211005175

Sperling, D. (2022). Why we need to reconsider moral distress in nursing. Nursing Ethics. https://journals.sagepub.com/ doi/full/ 10.1177/ 09697330221085763

Sperling, D. (2022). Travelling to die: Views, attitudes and end-of-life preferences of Israeli considering receiving aid-in-dying in Switzerland. BMC Medical Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-022-00785-w

Sperling, D. (2022). “Could you help me die?”: On the ethics of researcher-participant relationship and the limits of qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221105076

Sperling, D., Shadmi, E., Drach-Zahavy, A., & Luz, S. (2022). Champion nurses as street-level-bureaucrats: Factors which facilitate or inhibit policy making and reconstruction. Frontiers in Psychology 13:872131. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.872131/full

Karakoe-Eyal. N. & Sperling, D. (2023). The Patient Rights Act in the Supreme Court decisions: An empirical investigation of role that the Act has received in the judicial discourse. Mishpat U’Mimshal Law Review, 27. lawgov-20231119.pdf (haifa.ac.il) [in Hebrew]

Abu Hatoum, W. B., & Sperling, D. (2024). Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care. Nursing ethics, 31(5), 739-758.

Sperling, D., Golfenshtein, N., Drach-Zahavy, A, Toren, O., Hirschfeld, M., Wagner, N., Fleishman, T,T, Benbenishty, J., & Srulovici, E. (2023). Insights from coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations for enhancing preparedness for future crises: Recognizing the organizational paradox for advancement. Body of Knowledge, 23, 21-30 [in Hebrew].

Ben Shetrit, S., Daghash, J., & Sperling, D. (2024). The Use of artificial intelligence-based technologies in palliative care: Advancing patients’ well-being at end-of-life and enhancing the Implementation of the Dying Patient Act. Israel Medical Association Journal, 26, 126-129.

Sperling, D. (2024). “They choke to death in front of your very eyes”: Nurses’ lived experiences and perspectives on end-of-life care during COVID-19. BMC Palliative Care, 23, 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-024-01352-3

Spelring, D. (2024). “People aren’t happy to see refugees coming to Switzerland. They don’t like assisted suicide for foreigners”: Organizations’ perspectives regarding the right-to-die and suicide tourism. Death Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2337209

Sperling, D., Riskin, A., Borenstein-Levin, & Hochwald, O. (2024). At the threshold of viability: to resuscitate or not to resuscitate – The perspectives of Israeli neonatologists. BMJ Pediatrics Open. https://doi:10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002633

Sperling, D. (2024).Views, attitudes and challenges when supporting a family member in their decision to travel to Switzerland to receive aid-in-dying. International Journal of Public Health, 69. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1607410

Sperling, D. (2024). Needs, experiences, and hopes for aging futures among older adults in the LGBTQ communities: A qualitative study. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02938-x

Hatoum, W. B. A., & Sperling, D. (2024). Shared decision-making in end-of-life care for end-stage renal disease patients: nephrologists’ views and attitudes. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 13(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-024-00632-w

Sperling D., Schou-Juul, F., Lauridsen, S., Asaduzzaman, M., Guney, S., Kohanová, D., Giannouli, V., Porteri, C., Serrat, R. & Morais, A. (2025). Ethical principles pertaining to the care of people with dementia: Protocol for a qualitative thematic synthesis of legal documents. JMIR Research Protocols 2025;14:e71490. https://doi.org//10.2196/71490

Gaxhja, E., Toci, I., Saja, D., Sula, E., Gugu, M., & Sperling, D. (forthcoming, 2025). Exploring ethical dilemmas and concerns in caring for persons with dementia: Insights from formal caregivers in Albania. Dementia https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012251375380

**Gaxhja, E., Toci, I., Saja, D., Sula, E., Gugu, M., & Sperling, D. (forthcoming, 2025). Navigating ethical dilemmas: Experiences, views and attitudes of informal caregivers of individuals with dementia in Albania. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology https://doi.org/10.1177/08919887251343606

Commentary in Refereed Journal

Sperling, D. (2010) Symbolic organs and extended self: Expanding our understanding of motivation to donate organs. British Medical Journal, 340, c2182.

Book Reviews

Sperling, D. (2018). Book Review. Mike W. Martin, Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues. London, England: Lexington Press, 2016. Journal of Value Inquiry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-018-9672-7 [Impact Factor – 0.22. The Journal is placed 48/52 journals in the field Ethics and Q4 under JCR; Q2 under SJR in the field Philosophy].

Sperling D. (2013). Book Review. J.S.Taylor. Death, Posthumous Harm and Bioethics (NY: Routledge: 2012). Journal of Applied Philosophy, 30(3), 285-287. [Impact Factor – 1.02. The Journal is placed 24/52 journals in the field Ethics and Q2 under JCR; Q1 under SJR in the field Philosophy].

Sperling D. (2009) Book Review: Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, A Life (Un)Worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer: 2007) Medicine, Healthcare & Philosophy, 12(4), 485-486. [Impact Factor – 1.41. The journal is placed 12/52 journals in the field Ethics, 8/45 journals in the field of History & Philosophy of Science and Q1 under JCR].

Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)

Published

Sperling, D. (2008) Me or mine? On property from personhood, symbolic existence and motivation to donate organs in W. Weimar, M.A. Bos, J.J. van Busschbach (Eds), Organ transplantation: Ethical, legal and psychological aspects – towards a common European policy (pp. 463-470). Lengerich: PABST Science Publishers.]

Sperling, D. (2009) Talk to whom? Redefining autonomy in Talk to Her in S. Shapshay, (ed)., Bioethics at the movies (pp. 312-327). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press [The book is ranked “A” under the SENSE ranking of academic publishers]. Article cited 5 times.

Sperling, D. (2012) Reproducing justice: Is there a good justification for equal qccess to fertility care? In A. den Exter and M. Buijsen (Eds.), Rationing healthcare: Hard choices and unavoidable trade-offs (pp. 111-129). Antwerpen: Maklu Press.

Sperling, D. (2013) Death during pregnancy: Legal, ethical and professional aspects in D. Rubinstein & N. Tabak (Eds.), Ethics in Current Nursing (pp. 197-215). Tel Aviv: Probook & Dyonon [in Hebrew].

Sperling, D. (2014) Human trafficking and organ trade: Does the law really care for the health of people? In M. Feeman, S. Hawkes & B. Bennett (Eds.), Law and global health (pp. 193-208). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Sperling, D. (2015) Regulation of end-of-life care in Israel in G. Siegal (ed.), Blue white bioethics: On Israeli bioethics (pp.316-348). Jerusalem: Bialik [in Hebrew].

Sperling, D. (2021). Peer review ethics. In L. Josefsberg Ben-Yehoshua, D. Sperling and A. Ran (Eds.), Ethics and panic in the world of information(al) sciences, copyrights and academic publication (pp. 137-157). Tel Aviv: MOFET Institute.

** Sperling, D. (forthcoming, 2025). Suicide tourism. In M. Cholbi and P. Stelino (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Suicide. Oxford University Press.

** Sperling, D. & Yakov, G. (forthcoming, 2025). "It's not right not to give it to her, but it's also not right to force it on her": Ethical challenges, conflicts and strategies for resolving these while caring for a person with dementia. In C. Johnson and S. Pasupuleti (Eds.), Dementia – Innovations in care. Oxford University Press.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

Published

Sperling D. (2013). Book Review. J.S.Taylor. Death, Posthumous Harm and Bioethics (NY: Routledge: 2012). Journal of Applied Philosophy, 30 (3), 285-287.

Sperling, D. (2018). Book Review. Mike W. Martin, Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues. London, England: Lexington Press, 2016. Journal of Value Inquiry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-018-9672-7

Other Works and Publications

Sperling D. (2003) Due Process and the Dignity of the Dead Ultra Vires 4(4):9

Sperling D. (2006) Do the Dead Have Rights? Innovate 2:8

Sperling D. (2009) Commentary to Ella Koren, Coping With Errors and Moral Luck Paradox Journal of Medicine and Law 40:50 [in Hebrew]

Sperling D. (2010) Your Rights are the State’s Duties: Your Duty to Demand Them Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews Magazine 31: 5-7

Sperling D. (2010) To Be Born or Not to Be Born? That is The Question! Bidlataim Ptuchot 33:24-25 [in Hebrew]

Sperling D. (2013) Disclosing Physician Financial Interests. Medical Ethics Advisor

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