Ethics focusses on issues which involve the distinction between right and wrong. In this it is especially concerned with contemporary issues which pertains to more than one scientific discipline, eg. medical science: Abortion, euthanasia, and other bio-ethical issues; business-ethics; humanitarian ethics. Ethics and the approach to environmental and ecological issues are investigated

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