Research Ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 633-645
Author(s):  
Richard W. Schwester
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Milgram Experiments ◽  
Protection Of Human Subjects ◽  
The Many

In this chapter, students are presented with the many ethical dilemmas that can potentially confront social science researchers. Research ethics centers of two fundamental principles: 1) the protection of human subjects and 2) maintaining the integrity of the research process. Both of these principles are discussed in the context of popular culture and past transgressions of researchers, specifically the film Ghostbusters, the Tuskegee experiments, and Milgram experiments.

Research Ethics

2015 ◽  
pp. 217-229
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Milgram Experiments ◽  
Protection Of Human Subjects ◽  
The Many

In this chapter, students are presented with the many ethical dilemmas that can potentially confront social science researchers. Research ethics centers of two fundamental principles: 1) the protection of human subjects and 2) maintaining the integrity of the research process. Both of these principles are discussed in the context of popular culture and past transgressions of researchers, specifically the film Ghostbusters, the Tuskegee experiments, and Milgram experiments.

The Brewsters

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 815-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy L Rozmus ◽  
Nathan Carlin ◽  
Angela Polczynski ◽  
Jeffrey Spike ◽  
Richard Buday
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Clinical Ethics ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Protection Of Human Subjects

Background: One of the barriers to interprofessional ethics education is a lack of resources that actively engage students in reflection on living an ethical professional life. This project implemented and evaluated an innovative resource for interprofessional ethics education. Objectives: The objective of this project was to create and evaluate an interprofessional learning activity on professionalism, clinical ethics, and research ethics. Design: The Brewsters is a choose-your-own-adventure novel that addresses professionalism, clinical ethics, and research ethics. For the pilot of the book, a pre-test/post-test design was used. Once implemented across campus, a post-test was used to evaluate student learning in addition to a student satisfaction survey. Participants and research context: A total of 755 students in six academic schools in a health science center completed the activity as part of orientation or in coursework. Ethical considerations: The project was approved as exempt by the university’s Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects. Findings: The pilot study with 112 students demonstrated a significant increase in student knowledge. The 755 students who participated in the project had relatively high knowledge scores on the post-test and evaluated the activity positively. Discussion: Students who read The Brewsters scored well on the post-test and had the highest scores on clinical ethics. Clinical ethics scores may indicate issues encountered in mass media. Conclusion: The Brewsters is an innovative resource for teaching interprofessional ethics and professionalism. Further work is needed to determine whether actual and long-term behavior is affected by the activity.

The Ethics of Human Subjects Protection in Research

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Drewry
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Human Subjects Research ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Protection Of Human Subjects ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This article explores the evolution of research ethics in the protection of human subjects. Included in the examination of research ethics are a brief history of twentieth-century critical incidents in human subjects research, a review of formal efforts to define the values and principles of research ethics, theoretical foundations of ethical research, and relevance to contemporary social work theory, practice, and education.Wisdom is sold in the desolate marketWhere none come to buy.—William BlakeGermany, 1948—Rudolph Helwig sits uncomfortably in the witness chair at the trial of accused Nazi scientists in Nuremberg. He is a young man, barely into his twenties, but he wears a look of perpetual fear upon his face. Helwig is afraid right now, and ashamed. Everyone in the courtroom is watching him. The prosecutor approaches the witness stand. Helwig's eyes dart to the defendants' bench, where rows of older men sit, drowsy and unperturbed. The prosecutor asks Helwig why he had been sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1943. Helwig doesn't know. He is asked if he is mentally retarded. Helwig doesn't know. One of the older men smiles. The prosecutor asks Helwig why he was chosen for Ravensbruck's sterilization experiments. This Helwig knows, “I suppose it was because I could not defend myself.”

scholarly journals Research Ethics Boards: The Protection of Human Subjects

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. e472
Author(s):  
Valia S Lestou ◽  
Nancy Ondrusek ◽  
Morris A Blajchman
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Research Ethics Boards ◽  
Protection Of Human Subjects

Involving Parents and Children in Community-Engaged Research

2018 ◽  
pp. 206-226
Author(s):  
Erin Talati Paquette ◽  
Lainie Friedman Ross
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
Protection Of Human Subjects

Stakeholder engagement in research is increasingly relied upon for its potential to increase the relevance of research, improve transparency of the research process, and translate evidence into practice. Engaging communities in research provides research teams with unique views into the needs, interests, and skills of public stakeholders including healthy volunteers, advocacy groups, patient groups, and their families and/or caregivers. This chapter considers key ethical considerations for researchers contemplating community-engaged research, including how to think about protection of human subjects and privacy, concerns regarding conflicts of interest and group harms, and compensation in community-engaged research. These concerns are heightened and further complicated in community-engaged pediatric research because of the additional vulnerabilities of children. In the pediatric setting, the scope of child participation, consent, and compensation deserve special attention, with respect to and for the evolving but not yet fully developed moral agency of children.

On the Track of C/overt Research: Lessons From Taking Ethnographic Ethics to the Extreme

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 453-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tereza Virtová ◽  
Tereza Stöckelová ◽  
Helena Krásná
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Anthropological Research

Despite the growing body of literature that critically assesses the ambiguous impacts of institutional review boards (IRBs) on anthropological research, the key standards on which the IRB evaluations are based often remain unquestioned. By exposing the genealogy of an undercover research in which the authors participated as ethnographer, supervisor, and research participant, this article problematizes some of these standards and addresses the issues of power dynamics in research, informed consent, and anonymization in published work. It argues that rather than addressing genuine ethical dilemmas, IRB standards and the ethical fiction of informed consent mainly protect researchers from having to openly face the uncertainties of fieldwork. As an alternative, the authors put forth the notion of c/overt research, which perceives any research as processual and, in effect, becoming overt only during the research process itself. As such, it forces researchers to cultivate sensitivity to research ethics.

Applying the Devil's Works in a Holy Cause: Working-Class Popular Culture and the Salvation Army in the United States, 1879-1900

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
Lillian Taiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sunday Evening

Forty-eight hours after they landed in New York City in 1880, a small contingent of the Salvation Army held their first public meeting at the infamous Harry Hill's Variety Theater. The enterprising Hill, alerted to the group's arrival from Britain by newspaper reports, contacted their leader, Commissioner George Scott Railton, and offered to pay the group to “do a turn” for “an hour or two on … Sunday evening.” In nineteenth-century New York City, Harry Hill's was one of the best known concert saloons, and reformers considered him “among the disreputable classes” of that city. His saloon, they said, was “nothing more than one of the many gates to hell.”

Viktor Vasnetsov’s New Icons

Experiment ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Wendy Salmond
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Paris Exposition ◽  
The Many ◽  
Modern Orthodox ◽  
Human Hands

Abstract This essay examines Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov’s search for a new kind of prayer icon in the closing decades of the nineteenth century: a hybrid of icon and painting that would reconcile Russia’s historic contradictions and launch a renaissance of national culture and faith. Beginning with his icons for the Spas nerukotvornyi [Savior Not Made by Human Hands] Church at Abramtsevo in 1880-81, for two decades Vasnetsov was hailed as an innovator, the four icons he sent to the Paris “Exposition Universelle” of 1900 marking the culmination of his vision. After 1900, his religious painting polarized elite Russian society and was bitterly attacked in advanced art circles. Yet Vasnetsov’s new icons were increasingly linked with popular culture and the many copies made of them in the late Imperial period suggest that his hybrid image spoke to a generation seeking a resolution to the dilemma of how modern Orthodox worshippers should pray.

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