Ethics and policy: dealing with public attitudes.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry
; 129(1-3): 295-8, 2008.
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| ID: mdl-18593686
ABSTRACT
The current trend towards ethical scrutiny and oversight is very much a social trend. Many of the results of this trend are perfectly reasonable but some go harmfully too far. In this paper, caution is advocated about public attitudes and social trends. Although there is often a degree of truth in them, there is an inevitable simplification of the issues involved. The more specific danger for the professions is to think that public attitudes and social trends simply deliver 'the ethical'. In this context a more adequate account of ethics is considered--one that is relevant for professions like radiology confronting the demands of ethical scrutiny and oversight. The paper concludes with some suggestions about how to incorporate the important aspects of public attitudes and social trends without being subservient to them.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Justiça Social
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Biotecnologia
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Guias como Assunto
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Política de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Radiat Prot Dosimetry
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido