The Importance of Ethical Appraisal in Social Science Research: Reviewing a Faculty of Humanities' Research Ethics Committee

Journal of Academic Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 301-314

  de Wet, Katinka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ethical appraisal; Faculty of humanities; Research ethics committee; Social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650520823     PISSN: 15701727     EISSN: 15728544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10805-010-9118-8     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Benatar, S. R. (2002). Reflections and recommendations on research ethics in developing countries. Social Science and Medicine, 54, 1131-1141.
2. Burgess, M. (2007). Proposing modesty for informed consent. Social Science and Medicine, 65, 2284-2295.
3. Caplan, A. (2001). Research ban at Hopkins a sign of ethical crisis. http://www. med. jhu. edu/bioethics_institutute/, accessed 14 August 2009.
4. Gunsalus, C. K., Bruner, E. M., Burbules, N. C., et al. (2006). Mission Creep in the IRB World. Science, 312, 1441.
5. Hedgecoe, A. (2008). Research Ethics Review and the Sociological Research Relationship. Sociology, 42(5), 873-886.
6. Hyder, A. A., Dawson, L., Abdulgafoor, B. M., & Lavery, J. V. (2009). Moving from research ethics review to research ethics systems in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet, 373, 862-865.
7. Jacobson, N., Gewurtz, R., & Haydon, E. (2007). Ethical Review of Interpretive Research: Problems and Solutions. IRB: Ethics & Human Research, 29(5), 1-8.
8. Jansen, J. (2009). Knowledge in the Blood. Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past. California/Cape Town: Stanford University Press/ UCT Press.
9. Kim, S., Ubel, P., & De Vries, R. (2009). Pruning the regulatory tree. Nature, 457, 534-535.
10. Lederman, R. (2007). Comparative 'Research'; A Modest Proposal concerning the Object of Ethics Regulation. PoLAR (Political and Legal Anthropology Review), 30(2), 305-327.
11. Marshall, P., & Koenig, B. (2004). Accounting for culture in a globalized bioethics. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 32, 252-266.
12. McNeill, P., & Pfeffer, N. (2001). Learning from Unethical Research. In L. Doyal & S. Tobias (Eds.), Informed Consent in Medical Research (pp. 29-36). London: BMJ Books.
13. Murphy, E., & Dingwall, R. (2007). Informed Consent, anticipatory regulation and ethnographic practice. Social Science and Medicine, 65, 2223-2234.
14. Rabinow, P. (Ed.). (1994). Michel Foucault. Ethics. Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984, Volume I. London: Penguin Books.
15. Spiegel, A. (2005). From exposé to care: Preliminary thoughts about shifting the ethical concerns of South African social anthropology. Anthropology Southern Africa, 28(3& 4), 133-141.
16. Wright, L. S. (2006). A Research Prospectus for the Humanities. In Shifting boundaries of knowledge: A view on Social Sciences, Law and Humanities in South Africa (pp. 65-78), Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.