The ends of medicine: shaping new goals.

This paper represents a first effort at defining and clarifying the aims of a project which seeks to identify the desired outcomes of contemporary medicine. The project began, and this description was written, in autumn, 1992. The project will conclude in the fall of 1996. The present description has two parts: part I lays out the premises and assumptions behind the project; part II is a first effort at defining some of the major theoretical issues that the project must examine.