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Ethical issues have been addressed in diagnostic and in therapeutic fields of radiology especially in Anglo-American publications. Barron and Kim (2003) articulate doubts if American radiologists, when faced with increasing technological opportunities of imaging, adequately apply the Ethics Code of the American College of Radiology in their doctor-patient relationship. The radiology ethics debate in the U.S. includes concerns regarding research and its regulation; patient rights; informed consent and funding sources (Cooper 2005a,5b). The European ethical debate in radiology, especially in the German speaking area, is still developing with some pilot work or educational activities (Reiter-Theil and Hiddemann 2000). Ethical issues here are mostly studied from the physicians’ perspective (Schafer and Herbst 2003) such as patient information, an issue that receives great attention. Institutional or political aspects such as resource allocation are also discussed (Schafer et al. 2005).
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Reiter-Theil, S., Giles, N.S. (2008). Ethical Aspects of Screening and Preventive Diagnosis with Radiological Imaging. In: Reiser, M.F., van Kaick, G., Fink, C., Schoenberg, S.O. (eds) Screening and Preventive Diagnosis with Radiological Imaging. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49831-5_8
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