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Bioethics was founded on issues of justice over 50 years ago during the civil rights era. Its founding was in response not only to increasing technological advances, life-sustaining treatments in medicine, and physician paternalism, but also to the exploitation of vulnerable communities in research such as the commonly cited United States Public Health Service study on Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama and the New York School of Medicine hepatitis study on institutionalized children with disabilities at Willowbrook State School. Over the last few decades, the focus on justice in bioethics has faded in the shadow of emerging technologies. In clinical ethics, the primary focus has been on autonomous decision making and beneficent health care. Justice through the lens of health disparities has typically been addressed through public health, not bioethics, but this is changing. The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities’ code of ethics states that HEC consultants should work with other healthcare professionals to reduce disparities, discrimination, and inequities when providing consultations (ASBH, 2014).