The perils of working at home: IRB "mission creep" as context and content for an ethnography of disciplinary knowledges

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 482-491

  Lederman, Rena ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disciplinarity; Ethnography of academic life and higher education; Institutional review boards (IRB); Mission creep; Participant observation fieldwork; Research ethics; Unfunded research

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750104574     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.4.482     Document Type: Article

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