Fifty years of medical ethics: from the London Medical Group to the Institute of Medical Ethics.

In this article, the authors focus on the history and evolution of medical ethics and discuss its relation with the London Medical Group (LMG) in England and the Institute of Medical Ethics. They inform that students at the LMG used to select topics related to medical ethics and there were four lectures on medical ethics during 1963–1964 academic year. They state that an Edinburgh Medical Group has been established in Newcastle, England in 1967 and mention the report "The Pond Report."