Occupational Health Service, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Scotland, UK.
Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway.
Int J Radiat Biol. 2020 Mar;96(3):340-343. doi: 10.1080/09553002.2019.1665210. Epub 2019 Oct 1.
The potential for individual radiosensitivity and radiosusceptibility testing, both in clinical practice and in systems of radiological protection, raises complex ethical considerations which must be addressed both in relation to the scientific research looking at the issues themselves, and in relation to any systems of safety and protection which are then proposed for introduction. This paper uses ethical principles for radiological protection derived by the ICRP together with other biomedical principles, to identify and evaluate some of the ethical issues associated with radiosensitivity testing. Although the evaluation is not exhaustive, it illustrates a range of different ethical aspects that would need to be considered, prior to making recommendations for how the field might better address these challenges in its future development.
个体放射性敏感性和放射性易感性测试的可能性，无论是在临床实践中还是在放射防护系统中，都引发了复杂的伦理考虑因素，这些因素必须在研究这些问题本身的科学研究以及随后提出的任何安全和保护系统中得到解决。本文使用 ICRP 制定的放射防护伦理原则以及其他生物医学原则，来识别和评估与放射性敏感性测试相关的一些伦理问题。虽然评估并不详尽，但它说明了在为该领域未来发展提出如何更好地应对这些挑战的建议之前，需要考虑的一系列不同的伦理方面。
