The seminar investigates legal, ethical, and social problems caused by developments in medicine and the biological sciences. Topics include informed consent, death and dying, genetic planning and manipulation, fetal research, treatment of and experimentation with institutionalized persons, societal controls on scientific advances, and allocation of health care resources. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may require a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X — Writing Requirement and Directed Research.