"Bioethics is concerned with identifying the correct approach to matters such as euthanasia, or the allocation of scarce health resources, or the use of human embryos in research. Environmental ethics is concerned with questions such as the duties of humans towards landscapes or species. Business ethics concerns questions such as the limits on managers in the pursuit of profit, or the duty of 'whistleblowers' to the general public as opposed to their employers.
Applied ethics is distinguished from normative ethics, which concerns what people should believe to be right and wrong, and from meta-ethics, which concerns the nature of moral statements.
An emerging typology for applied ethics (Porter, 2006) uses six domains to help improve organizations and social issues at the national and global level:
Decision ethics, or ethical theories and ethical decision processes
Professional ethics, or ethics to improve professionalism
Clinical ethics, or ethics to improve our basic health needs
Business ethics, or individual based morals to improve ethics in an organization
Organizational ethics, or ethics among organizations
Social ethics, or ethics among nations and as one global unit"
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