Comparative “research”: A modest proposal concerning the object of ethics regulation

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 305-327

  Lederman, Rena ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Audit culture; Definition of research; Irbs; Libel by fiction; New ethnographic objects; Participant observation; Social and behavioral research ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549090075     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/pol.2007.30.2.305     Document Type: Article

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