Ethics Beyond the IRB: An Introductory Essay

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 401-413

  Blee, Kathleen M ^a   Currier, Ashley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Ethics; Feminist; Institutional review board (IRB); Postcolonial; Queer studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051469215     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-011-9195-z     Document Type: Review

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