The Ethics Rupture: Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review

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Will C. van den Hoonaard, Ann Hamilton
University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 2016 - Education - 464 pages

For decades now, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have been expressing a deep dissatisfaction with the process of research-ethics review in academia. Continuing the ongoing critique of ethics review begun in Will C. van den Hoonaard's Walking the Tightrope and The Seduction of Ethics, The Ethics Rupture offers both an account of the system's failings and a series of proposals on how to ensure that social research is ethical, rather than merely compliant with institutional requirements.

Containing twenty-five essays written by leading experts from around the world in various disciplines, The Ethics Rupture is a landmark study of the problems caused by our current research-ethics system and the ways in which scholars are seeking solutions.

 

Contents

Strains in Research Ethics Review Processes
23
Outside the Comfort Zone New Methodologies
133
Analysis of Change When Superficiality Displaces Substance
187
Solutions Renewal Reform or Dismemberment?
283
Final Thoughts
407
The New Brunswick Declaration
431
Contributors
433
Index
443
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Will C. van den Hoonaard is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick. Ann Hamilton holds a PhD in human communication from the University of Oklahoma.

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