Science ethics as a bureaucratic problem: IRBs, rules, and failures of control

Policy Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 269-291

  Bozeman, Barry ^a   Hirsch, Paul ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; ETHICS;

EID: 33744798785     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-006-9010-y     Document Type: Article

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