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While radical science movements have its focus on issues like nuclear disarmament, global way, ecological concerns, human genome projects, cloning and GM foods, animal rights, engineering disaster etc., & computers cyber culture, computer ethics and other branches of applied ethics tend more to professionalism (business ethics) .Accordingly, computer ethics, entitled as applied ethics, is mostly limited to applied technology/ a part of computing, software engineering.

In its attempt at understanding the overall impact of emerging technologies and their implications for work, social relations etc., one cannot but avoid asking questions about ethical implications of some professions like engineering, health sciences and other such disciplines that that have made tremendous impact on our life .However as a part of the larger movement of the ethical turn in literature and in philosophy, this ethical turn too is more focused on situational and context dependent ethical issues than focusing on explicit normative stances.

This leads to an awareness of distinctive nature of applied ethics in relation to distinctive professions. In engineering profession ethics is more akin to engineering design that needs technical efficacy of the job designed and implemented , on proper planning to avoid risks as far as possible than focusing on moral intuition or on guilt feeling etc.

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Engineering Ethics

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