As a way of contributing to bioethics' understanding
of itself, and, more particularly, to invigorate conversation
about how we can best educate future colleagues, we present
here a sketch of the quarter-century-old graduate concentration
in medical ethics housed in the Department of Philosophy at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Our hope is to incite other
programs to share their histories, strategies, problems, and
aspirations, so as to help the field as a whole get a clearer
sense of how we are putting together our future, and of how we
might best go about this important job.