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| 1960s || Bioethics as a distinct field of academic study is born in the United States, merging from a cluster of scientific and cultural developments in the country during that decade.<ref name="Bioethics - History Of Bioethics">{{cite web |title=Bioethics - History Of Bioethics |url=http://science.jrank.org/pages/8456/Bioethics-History-Bioethics.html |website=science.jrank.org |accessdate=1 September 2018}}</ref>
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| 1970s–1980s || Many bioethics programs and degrees are established at universities in the {{w|United States}} in order to provide students−most students{{snd}}most notably medical, law, and public policy students{{snd}}with some expertise in medical ethics to deal with complex cases.<ref name="Bioethicsvv"/> Feminist bioethics develops from the early 1970s on and is initially focused on medical ethics; proponents later extend the areas of interest to issues in the fields of animal and environmental ethics.<ref name="Bioethicsvv"/>
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| 1990s || In the last decade of the 20th century, the contributions of social scientists to bioethical research become particularly important. Work of this type involves surveys of public attitudes to advances in the life sciences, including xenotransplantation and genetic modification.<ref name="Bioethicsbritannica.com"/>
