TY - BOOK ID - 3119133 TI - Ethics and radiological protection AU - Feltz, Bernard AU - Eggermont, Gilbert AU - Cantone, Marie Claire AU - Gardiner, Stephen AU - Godard, Olivier AU - Academia-Bruylant PY - 2008 VL - 3 SN - 9782872098941 2872098941 PB - Louvain-la-Neuve Academia-Bruylant DB - UniCat KW - Radiation KW - Safety measures KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Bestraling KW - Medische ethiek KW - Radiologie KW - Radiation dosimetry KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Standards KW - Congresses KW - Ethics KW - Monograph KW - Physics KW - Radiology KW - Safety measures&delete& KW - Radiation - Safety measures - Moral and ethical aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3119133 AB - The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is recommending measures to guarantee the health of the public exposed to ionising radiation. During the last years, ICRP proposed fundamental changes in its protection approach. What is at stake in this evolution ? What is the ethical dimension of radiological protection and how can we frame the process options of ICRP within ethical theories ? The ICRP evolution is here analysed from different standpoints. The three successive approaches of radiological protection - justification, optimisation and limits - are focused on ethical aspects by physicists, biologists, engineers, medical physicians, philosophers, ethicists, psychologists and economists. These approaches also take place in the context of precaution and intergenerational responsibility. Recent tendencies in ICRP were paying less attention to justification and optimisation while decreasing the status of limits. The authors express convergences in their concern for a degradation of this unique system of protection based on the precautionary ALARA principle. The hierarchy and complementarities of the triple system of radiological protection are pointed out to be crucial both from ethical and political points of view. ER -