Many risk scholars recognize the importance of including ethical considerations in risk
management. Risk ethics can provide in‐depth ethical analysis so that ethical …

Objective Healthcare personnel who work in units of hospitals where ionizing radiation is
used are in an at risk group, and their health statuses should be periodically monitored …

One of the central issues in radiation protection consists in determining what weight should
be given to individual doses in relation to collective or aggregated doses. A mathematical …

This paper reviews some of the issues connected with questions of ethics, health
economics, radiation dose and referral criteria arising from a workshop held under the …

Nuclear power generation require protection against harmful effects of ionizing radiation.
Radiation protection is based on the linear, no‐threshold model of health risks at low doses …

The practical applicability of ethical theories is regrettably limited in many areas of
application, but in radiation protection it is quite high. This is because radiation protection …

The subject of bioethics probably first began appearing in radiation protection terminology
when the reference was being made to the survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and …

This contribution provides analyses of four ethically problematic issues in genetic risk
assessment and management. First, should we require a positive risk-benefit balance for …

It has been argued that the phenomenon of hormesis should prompt us to revise current
regulatory policy in order to take beneficial effects of small doses of various agents into …

Several issues are discussed which are fundamental to the formulation of radiation
protection standards:(1) the biological effectiveness of different radiations,(2) estimation of …