A consideration of the philosophical foundations of medicine and the ethical issues generated or made acute by advances in biology, technology, and medicine. Typical issues include: informed consent, healer-patient relationships, condentiality, abortion, allocation of scarce medical resources, genetic research and experimentation, cost containment in health care, accountability of health care professionals, care of the dying, and questions of what constitutes life, death, and health. This class does not require any previous experience in philosophy.