Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on March 26, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp042
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ETHICAL ISSUES IN RADIOLOGY: A PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE
Faculty of Philosophy, Milltown Institute, Dublin 6, Ireland
* Corresponding author: ssia{at}milltown-institute.ie
Given that there is much disagreement as to what constitutes philosophy, even among philosophers, it is a challenge to provide a philosophical perspective. There are, however, at least two areas that most philosophers would regard as coming within the terrain of philosophical thinking: (1) the clarification of issues and (2) providing some sort of a foundation on which further thinking can take place. Thus, by way of contributing a philosophical perspective to the discussion, this paper will clarify some of the more fundamental issues regarding ethical debates in the hope of establishing some kind of theoretical foundation on which to base the discussion of the more specific issues and of widening the scope of the discussion.