Providing ethical guidance for collaborative research in developing countries:

Research Ethics

NinaMorris¹ 

关键词: collaborative research;    developing countries;    ethics;    natural science;    social science;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1747016115586759

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Experience has shown that the application of ethical guidelines developed for research in developed countries to research in developing countries can be, and often is, impractical and raises a number of contentious issues. Various attempts have been made to provide guidelines more appropriate to the developing world context; however, to date these efforts have been dominated by the fields of bioscience, medical research and nutrition. There is very little advice available for those seeking to undertake collaborative social science or natural science research in developing countries and what is there tends to be held within disparate sources. Charting the development of a set of ethics documentation for future use by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme research community, this paper outlines past and present attitudes towards ethics procedures amongst this community and suggests ways in which ethics procedures might be made more relevant and user-friendly to researchers working ...

【 授权许可】

CC BY