New Book: The Ethics Rupture

The University of Toronto Press has published The Ethics Rupture: Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review, edited by Will C. van den Hoonaard and Ann Hamilton. My chapter is entitled, “Ethical Pluralism: Scholarly Societies and the Regulation of Research Ethics.”

The full contents are as follows:

INTRODUCTION

The Ethics Rupture Summit in the Context of Current Trends in Research-Ethics Review - Will C. van den Hoonaard and Ann Hamilton

I. STRAINS IN RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW PROCESSES

1. The Social Costs of Ethics Regulation - Robert Dingwall

2. Fieldwork Double-Bound in Human Research-Ethics Reviews: Disciplinary Competence, or Regulatory Compliance and the Muting of Disciplinary Values - Rena Lederman

3. IRBan Renewal - Patti A. Adler and Peter Adler

4. The Language of Ethics: How Ethics Review Creates Inequalities for Language Minorities in Research - Laura Stark

5. Uncomfortable Truths, Ethics, and Qualitative Research: Escaping from the Dominance of Informed Consent - Marco Marzano

6. Assessing Risk in Psychological Research - Patrick O’Neill

II. OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE: NEW METHODOLOGIES

7. The Internet as a Stage: Dramaturgy, Research-Ethics Boards, and Privacy as Performance - Heather Kitchin Dahringer

8. Research Ethics Boards: Are They Ready for Autoethnography? - B. Lee Murray

9. (Re)Framing Research Ethics Through Communication: A Collective and Collaborative Approach to Research-Ethics Review - Julie Bull

III. ANALYSIS OF CHANGE: WHEN SUPERFICIALITY DISPLACES SUBSTANCE

10. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The TCPS 2 and the Institutional Oversight of Social Science Research in Canada - Kirsten Bell

11. Should Data Sharing be Regulated? - Natasha S. Mauthner

12. The Malaise in Ethics for Graduate Students: the Socialization of Contemporary Students by Ethics Boards - Lisa-Jo Kestin van den Scott

13. The Eclipse of Human Subjects and the Rise of Human Participants in Research Involving Humans - Igor Gontcharov

14. Ethics in Social Science and Humanities Research: Brazilian Strategies to Improve Guidelines - Iara Coelho Zito Guerriero

IV. SOLUTIONS: RENEWAL, REFORM, OR DISMEMBERMENT?

15. Australian Research Ethics Governance: Plotting the Demise of the Adversarial Culture - Mark Israel, Gary Allen, and Colin Thomson

16. Ethical Pluralism: Scholarly Societies and the Regulation of Research Ethics - Zachary M. Schrag

17. Research-Ethics Review and Compliatorianism: A Curious Dilemma - Ann Hamilton

18. Enriching Ethics-Review Processes in the Spirit of Participatory Dialogue - Kate Holland

19. Rupturing Ethics Literacy: The Ethics Applications Repository (TEAR) - Emma Tumilty, Martin Tolich and Stephanie Dobson

20. Professional Research Ethics: Helping to Balance Individual and Institutional Integrity - Ron Iphofen

FINAL THOUGHTS

So Where from Here? Finding Paths through the Bramble of Research-Ethics Review - Ann Hamilton and Will C. van den Hoonaard

APPENDIX

A. The New Brunswick Declaration: A Declaration on Research Ethics, Integrity, and Governance