Joan O'C. Hamilton, "A Sharper Picture of Health" (2003) (page 370-77)

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One technology associated with medical imaging—MRI technology—has led to many advancements in medicine. Still, like a lot of new technologies, MRI is not without its controversies and drawbacks. You can read about some of the controversies and ethical dilemmas associated with medical imaging below.

After reading more about medical imaging at the following sites, you should consider what you think the ethical boundaries of the technology are. You might want to think about cases in which medical images can be an invasion of one's privacy, for example.

http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm
One of the major innovations in medical imaging is MRI technology. This Web site maintained by Dr. Joseph Hornak of the Rochester Institute of Technology tells you all you could ever want to know about MRI technology.

http://research.arc2.ucla.edu/pmts/default.htm
Read more about the ethical issues involved in medical technology. This site, from UCLA's program on Medicine, Technology and Society, discusses many ethical issues, such as the decoding of the human genome.

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/104_images.html
One of the issues discussed in the book is the controversy over "keepsake" ultrasounds. Here, you can read about the Food and Drug Administration's reaction to these photos. The FDA now claims that they may be unsafe.

http://imaging.med.virginia.edu/
The University of Virginia has a program in medical imaging, which you can read more about on this Website. It describes many different techniques in medical imaging and links to other resources on the topic.

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