Bioethics and second wave feminism both independently gathered momentum during the 1960s, a pivotal era for social transformation in many areas of the world. Something that might be called the bioethics “movement” was first triggered by widespread protest against such gross abuses of medical authority as the Nazi doctors’ experiments on unconsenting concentration camp inmates, culminating in the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial of 1946 (Weindling 2004), and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a forty-year study of poor black men with untreated syphilis in the American Deep South (Reverby 2009). Over the decades since then bioethics has blossomed into an interdisciplinary field that borrows from a cluster of interrelated areas of scholarship including philosophy, theology, law, medicine, and the social and biological sciences, and that (in the United States in particular) has become highly professionalized. Bioethics has generated a massive literature ranging over a broad array of moral problems that arise within biomedical and life science research, the healthcare professions, and the institutions and bodies that deliver healthcare services. Increasingly, its remit goes beyond what are traditionally deemed medical topics to include public health issues and areas of social care that interact with medical and life sciences. Its reach extends from the beginning to the end of human life, to areas of biology and genetics on which medicine draws, to research that seeks to expand the knowledge base of medicine; and many contemporary bioethicists are also interested in the societal impacts of the life sciences in general. In some countries bioethicists now also enjoy considerable professional prestige. Some serve on public policy panels and in medical school faculties, and others have been engaged as consultants to industry. Conferences introduce newcomers to the field and disseminate recent bioethical scholarship. Many professional medical and allied health organizations require bioethics training for certification, while regulations in the United States and other countries now expect medical schools to include research ethics in their curricula. A few bioethicists have even become media celebrities.