From physical settings such as high schools and maternity homes
to the unfolding 'virtual' terrain of cyberspace, social science
research projects are subject to increasingly restrictive
ethics-testing. Are formal ethics research guidelines congruent
with the aims and methodology of inductive and qualitative social
research? Using the experiences of sixteen Canadian, American, and
British researchers, this collection of essays explores a range of
answers to the question.
The sixteen contributors challenge the 'bio-medical' basis of
research-ethics review policies in the authors' three national
contexts, suggesting that guidelines were created with quantitative
work in mind, and actually impede or interrupt work which is not
hypothesis-driven 'hard science.' Through examination of a range of
ethics issues - confidentiality, especially sensitive settings,
questions of 'voice' and the complex new challenges of ethical
Internet research - the authors test the appropriateness of current
ethical review protocols.
Scholars and practitioners in the fields of social work,
education and sociology will find the essays useful and
stimulating, as will teachers and students of qualitative research
methodologies in fields as diverse as medicine, comparative
literature and business studies. These papers, none of which is
previously published, raise disruptive questions with an engaging
urgency of manner.
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