title: Ethical issues in risk communication: continuing the discussion.
abstract: Proposed in this article is one possible framework for classifying multiple types of ethical issues in risk communication research and practice to help continue a discussion initiated in 1990 by Morgan and Lave. Some of the questions that each stage of the process for planning risk communication strategies appears to pose for ethics are discussed (e.g., selecting issues to be communicated, knowing the issue, dealing with constraints). Also discussed briefly are some issues raised by the possibility that risk communicators aspire to the status of a profession. The purpose is to foster discussion rather than issue a conclusive statement on the topic, because its very nature makes a definitive pronouncement indefensible.
authors.affiliation: Bureau of Risk Analysis, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton 08625-0409, USA.
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003146:Communications Media; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004989:Ethics / Q000145:classification; D006040:Goals; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D011340:Problem Solving; D011634:Public Health; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014342:Truth Disclosure