The Case against Ethics Review in the Social Sciences:

Research Ethics

Zachary M.Schrag¹ 

关键词: research ethics committees;    ethics review;    human subjects;    social sciences;    humanities;   

DOI  :  10.1177/174701611100700402

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

For decades, scholars in the social sciences and humanities have questioned the appropriateness and utility of prior review of their research by human subjects' ethics committees. This essay seeks to organize thematically some of their published complaints and to serve as a brief restatement of the major critiques of ethics review. In particular, it argues that 1) ethics committees impose silly restrictions, 2) ethics review is a solution in search of a problem, 3) ethics committees lack expertise, 4) ethics committees apply inappropriate principles, 5) ethics review harms the innocent, and 6) better options exist.

【 授权许可】

CC BY