Stephanie Hedge, a PhD Candidate at Ball State University in Rhetoric and Composition, describes how IRB requirements aggravated her difficulties in "persuading students to be my guinea pigs for a semester."
[Stephanie Hedge, "Successfully Recruiting Research Participants," Inside Higher Ed, 20 March 2012.]
News and commentary about Institutional Review Board oversight
of the humanities and social sciences
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Hospital Blocks Access to 18th Century Records
Pennsylvania Hospital has refused a graduate student's request to see 18th century medical records, citing HIPAA concerns.
[Melissa Dribben, Health-record privacy impeding medical research," Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 March 2012. h/t Michelle Meyer.]
[Melissa Dribben, Health-record privacy impeding medical research," Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 March 2012. h/t Michelle Meyer.]
Petrie-Flom Center Posts ANPRM Conference Program
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School has circulated the following announcement, concerning a conference at which I will speak. I am happy to post the announcement in full.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
REC Forbids Dissertations on Lap Dancing
Robert Dingwall fears that "research ethics is co-opted to infantilize students who are legally adults but treated as if they should never be allowed to risk a bad experience."
[Robert Dingwall, "Better Drowned than Duffers…?," social science space, 19 February 2012.]
[Robert Dingwall, "Better Drowned than Duffers…?," social science space, 19 February 2012.]
Friday, March 2, 2012
Video of my Michigan Talk Now Online
The University of Michigan Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences has kindly posted a video recording of my February 1 talk:
and the subsequent panel discussion, featuring Cleo Caldwell, Carl Schneider, and Alford Young, Jr.:
Zachary Schrag talk, February 1, 2012 from CBSSM Developers on Vimeo.
and the subsequent panel discussion, featuring Cleo Caldwell, Carl Schneider, and Alford Young, Jr.:
Ethical Imperialism: The Case Against IRB Review of the Social Sciences, 2/1/12 Panel Discussion from CBSSM Developers on Vimeo.