Making researchers moral: Why trustworthiness requires more than ethics guidelines and review:

Research Ethics

LinusJohnsson¹ 

关键词: institutionalized distrust;    moral responsibility;    moral competence;    moral integrity;    research ethics;    scientific misconduct;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1747016113504778

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Research ethics, once a platform for declaring intent, discussing moral issues and providing advice and guidance to researchers, has developed over time into an extra-legal regulatory system, complete with steering documents (ethics guidelines), overseeing bodies (research ethics committees) and formal procedures (informed consent). The process of institutionalizing distrust is usually motivated by reference to past atrocities committed in the name of research and the need to secure the trustworthiness of the research system. This article examines some limitations of this approach. First, past atrocities cannot provide the necessary justification unless institutionalized distrust is a necessary or efficient means to prevent future ones – and there are several reasons to doubt this. Second, the efficacy of ethics review in safeguarding morally acceptable research depends on the moral competence and integrity of individual researchers – the very qualities that institutionalized distrust calls into question....

【 授权许可】

CC BY