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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:03:00 EST
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- From: Kathryn Irene Snyder <IRENES@UNC.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Ethics
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- The question of what is or is not ethical is one that folks have been
- arguing about roughly since Socrates, and there doesn't seem to be much
- of a consensus yet. We had a rather heated argument in a meeting here
- a few months back about ethics committees and review boards. One
- researcher (a grad student) was protesting the inefficiency of the revie
- w process, saying that they get so many proposals to review that they
- cannot conceivably do more than skim each one, and his proposal (he
- wants to do research on pain, although I don't know more than that) was
- likely to get summarily shot down because it sounded unpleasant. How
- are the review boards more qualified to judge the relevance and ethical
- virtues of his research than he is, who has spent months or years
- thinking about this sort of problem and working on related projects at
- other institutions (there are to my knowledge no faculty here really
- working on pain as such.) He feels quite emphatically that this is
- legitimate research, that will contribute usefully to the field, and
- thinks that the review board will disagree with him because they don't
- know the field.
- I don't know if he ever did submit his proposal, or what happened to it
- after that, but it was an interesting problem. What makes the review
- board all knowing on matters of ethics?
- Just my nickel's worth, (I'm feeling generous today,)
- Irene Snyder
- irenes@unc.bitnet
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