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Keep Research Ethics Dirty! A comment and responses
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Abstract In his comment "Keep Research Ethics Dirty!" Martin Sökefeld questions the growing trend of routine procedures of ethics reviews in Germany. His discontent centres around two reasonings. First, he contends that the standardised ethics review is designed to protect institutions but is less effective ... view more
In his comment "Keep Research Ethics Dirty!" Martin Sökefeld questions the growing trend of routine procedures of ethics reviews in Germany. His discontent centres around two reasonings. First, he contends that the standardised ethics review is designed to protect institutions but is less effective at protecting subjects of research. Second, the "ethical clearance" granted by institutional reviews rarely solves the real ethical issues and dilemmas during fieldwork. Martin Sökefeld ends his essay with resistance against the "purification" of institutional reviews and politics of research. Tabassum Fahim Ruby builds on Sökefelds contribution and further discusses shortcomings of ethical clearance typical for social sciences research with a focus on the standards formulated by the United States Institutional Review Board (IRB). Chien-Juh Gu adds to the discussion examples from her submissions to the Human Subjects Institution Review Board (HSIRB) at the Western Michigan University. She then contests Sökefelds's second point that uses dichotomous notions of "pure" versus "dirty" in perceiving research ethics.... view less
Keywords
research; science ethics; research policy; expert report; field research; social science; anthropology
Classification
Philosophy of Science, Theory of Science, Methodology, Ethics of the Social Sciences
Free Keywords
research ethics; institutional review boards
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 519-532
Journal
International Quarterly for Asian Studies (IQAS), 53 (2022) 4
Issue topic
Negotiating Research Ethics in Volatile Contexts, Part I
ISSN
2566-6878
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0