ABSTRACT
Science and technology have dramatically changed the world in the last centuries, albeit in conflicting ways. The development and application of modern science and technology in the various ‘sectors’ of the society can be called one of the five evolutions that, in a historical perspective, made up modernity. In medicine, health risk governance may refer to policy practices such as provision of public hospitals with radiological facilities to be deployed in a framework determined by legal and good practice protocols for health benefits to all individual members of the community. While medical applications of radiation save individual lives every day, nuclear weapons have the potential to destroy humanity as a whole. An ethics of care for health risk governance ‘bound in complexity’ supports the values for radiological protection in medicine.
