Timeline of bioethics

This is a timeline of bioethics.

Big picture

Time period	Development summary
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.

Full timeline

Year	Event type	Details	Location
1970 (September)		The Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences (later Hastings Center) is founded. A freestanding bioethics center, it is the first institution devoted to the study of bioethical questions.	United States
1971		The Kennedy Institute of Ethics opens at Georgetown University. With similar goals to those of The Hastings Center, the Kennedy Institute is however placed inside the traditional academy.	United States
1975	Journal	Journal of Medical Ethics
1979	Journal	IRB: Ethics & Human Research
1981	Journal	The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
1986	Journal	Biology and Philosophy
1987	Journal	Journal Bioethics is first released.	United Kingdom
1987	Journal	Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
1988	Journal	Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
1999	Journal	AMA Journal of Ethics
1999	Journal	American Journal of Bioethics
2001	Journal	The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
2004	Journal	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2006	Journal	BioSocieties
2008	Journal	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics}}
2011	Journal	Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics

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The initial version of the timeline was written by FIXME.

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