Challenges for Medical Ethics Pedagogy in Korea

As an academic discipline, medical ethics is a relatively recent phenomenon, not only in Asia, but also in the West. In North America, serious scholarly interest in medical ethics really only began in the 1960s, when various social movements inspired academics, especially those in the humanities, to distance themselves from the Ivory Tower and attempt to become more socially relevant. It was in this context that the field of medical ethics and the larger field of applied ethics began to flourish.