Medical Ethics 19 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Doctors, researchers and patients caught in disputes over consent, treatment and medical power.
- Season 4 · Episode 8
Waste
A woman in a long-term coma is found to be pregnant, and the search for her rapist uncovers a doctor’s secret stem cell experiment paid for by a dying billionaire.
- Season 6 · Episode 12
Identity
A gang member’s fall from a roof leads detectives to teenage twins, and to a doctor who has spent years testing a theory on them.
- Season 6 · Episode 22
Parts
A dismembered veteran leads the squad from a morgue’s body-selling racket to a black market in kidneys, and to a woman Munch cannot forget.
- Season 7 · Episode 2
Design
A pregnant woman’s rape case against a rich scientist collapses into a hunt for her body, then for the truth about her baby and the men she targeted.
- Season 8 · Episode 5
Confrontation
A rapist who keeps returning to his victims is timing the attacks to their ovulation, and the only proof grows inside a victim who will not admit it.
- Season 8 · Episode 9
Choreographed
A model’s mysterious death in Central Park points first to her philandering choreographer husband, then to the jealous husband of his lover, who has been tracking his wife with an implanted chip.
- Season 8 · Episode 13
Loophole
Photos of a boy sent anonymously to SVU lead Benson to a building where a chemical company has been testing a pesticide on poor tenants.
- Season 9 · Episode 5
Harm
The murder of a teacher who was helping a torture survivor tell his story puts a psychiatrist who designed interrogations in Iraq on trial in New York.
- Season 9 · Episode 14
Inconceivable
The theft of 100 frozen embryos sends the squad through a fertility clinic’s most contentious clients, and the activists behind it set off a fatal act of revenge.
- Season 9 · Episode 17
Authority
A phone prankster who talks a manager into abusing a teenage employee is acquitted, becomes a folk hero, and then tests Stabler with Benson’s life.
- Season 10 · Episode 1
Trials
A foster child’s escape in a stolen van exposes his use in drug trials and leads Benson back to his birth mother’s unsolved rape, part of a pattern targeting single mothers.
- Season 10 · Episode 5
Retro
A baby abandoned with untreated AIDS leads SVU to a doctor who denies that HIV causes the disease, and to the families who followed his advice.
- Season 11 · Episode 7
Users
The murder of a 16-year-old in a cheap hotel exposes the therapist who controls her treatment program, and Huang breaks the law to get the case’s key witness off heroin.
- Season 11 · Episode 14
Savior
SVU hunts a religious zealot who strangles prostitutes, and the case depends on a pregnant survivor whose premature baby leaves Benson facing a hard decision.
- Season 19 · Episode 13
The Undiscovered Country
A father kidnaps his terminally ill baby to stop doctors from ending his life support, and Barba’s response lands him on trial for murder.
- Season 19 · Episode 16
Dare
When a girl dies after a schoolyard dare, SVU discovers that her surgeon harvested her organs without her parents’ consent, as she has done for dozens of other children.
- Season 26 · Episode 16
Let Me Bring Pardon
Ellie Hughes, comatose since her boyfriend’s attack, turns out to be pregnant, and the timing points to a rape inside the hospital.
- Season 27 · Episode 9
Purity
After a bombing nearly kills Bruno, SVU traces a surrogacy trafficking ring to a white supremacist community and the multimillionaire buying its embryos.
- Season 27 · Episode 12
Hubris
Benson rescues a trafficked foster girl and comes to doubt the child-abuse pediatrician whose testimony took her from her father and sent another mother to jail.