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Title

Bureacratizing ethics: Institutional review boards and participatory research

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This paper provides a brief history of regulatory research ethics, as embodied in Institutional Review Boards in the United States. The purpose is to foster common disciplinary understanding of the origin and purpose of IRBs, and to identify the core conflict between the philosophies of participatory action research and regulatory ethics. That conflict centers on the contradictory language and associated understandings of research "subjects" and "participants". I suggest a need for more disciplinary engagements around this conflict, to foster more open ethical debates and competencies among geographers. © Deborah G. Martin, 2007; journal compilation © ACME Editorial Collective, 2007.

Publication Title

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Publication Date

12-24-2007

Volume

6

Issue

3

First Page

319

Last Page

328

ISSN

1492-9732

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