Piercing the veil: Ethical issues in ethnographic research

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-160

  Schrag, Brian ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical issues in ethnographic research; Group consent; Harm and wrong in research; Inflicted insight; Informed consent; Institutional review of ethnographic research; Invasion of privacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; IRELAND; MORALITY; PRIVACY; RECUMBENCY; RESEARCH ETHICS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DECEPTION; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; IRELAND; MORALS; PRIVACY;

EID: 67349233402     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-008-9105-2     Document Type: Article

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