History

Watch this video introducing some general principles of medical ethics, from the Harvard School of General Education: 

Medical ethics and history By David Jones (HMS)

Watch this video on the introduction to bioethics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown:

The video discusses movement away from paternalism because what’s best for the patient is highly dependent on that patient’s values, the ethics of creating intra- and inter-species genetic chimeras, movement away from paternalism to other extreme of consumerism.

Here’s another good video introducing the field of bioethics and why it matters:    

The video starts with his study of kuru in Papua, New Guinea, moving on to looking at bioethics as the field exploring the ethical, social, and legal implications of advances in healthcare technology, the four principles of bioethics, Nazi experiments on patients made to become hypothermic.