Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Lars Persson, in Swedish Radiation Protection Society Reports 11 (2001)
[full-text available at http://www.ssi.se/english/index.shtml]

In this report the authors survey existing international radiation-protection recommendations and standards of the International Radiological Protections Commission (ICRP), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the International Labor Organization (ILO). After outlining previous work on the ethics of radiation protection, professional ethics, and the ethics of human radiation experiments, the authors review ethical thinking on seven key issues related to radiation protection and ethics. They formulate each of these seven issues in terms of alternative ethical stances: 1) equity versus efficiency, 2) health versus economics, 3) individual rights versus societal benefits, 4) due process versus necessary sacrifice, 5) uniform versus double standards, 6) stakeholder consent versus management decisions, and 7) environmental stewardship versus anthropocentric standards.

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