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Book SynopsisExtensively revised and updated to serve today's needs for insight and solutions to the most vexing ethical and regulatory problems faced by researchers today,
Planning Ethically Responsible Research, Second Edition guides readers through one of the most important aspects of their social or behavioral research: planning ethically responsible research. Authors Joan E. Sieber and Martin B. Tolich offer invaluable, practical guidance to researchers and graduate students to understand ethical concerns within real-life research situations, satisfy federal regulations governing human research, and work with the university's Institutional Review Board (IRB). The book includes an abundance of useful tools: detailed instructions on development of an effective IRB protocol; methods for handling issues of consent, privacy, confidentiality and deception; ways to assess risk and benefit to optimize research outcomes; and how to respect the needs of vulnerable research populations.
Trade Review"Two important aspects covered in this text are the ethical considerations in qualitative research methodologies, and the attention that is needed in University Research Ethics Committees to understanding and addressing these methodologies." -- Dorothy Ettling
"I particularly enjoyed the energetic and experienced tone of these writers and their willingness to take a stance...The chapters in the second half of the book on consent, confidentiality and autoethnography have thoughtful coverage of qualitative research issues. Equally welcome is their attempt to come up with constructive solutions rather than to simply criticize...The authors have established record in developing an evidence base on human research ethics and I shall be bringing their final chapter, with its ‘Ten Simple Solutions for Making Ethics Review a Learning Institution’, to my own ethics committee." -- Sally Holland * Qualitative Research (QRJ) *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Research Governance and Research Ethics Chapter 2. Why We Need Ethics: Assessing Vulnerability, Risk and Benefit Chapter 3. The Relevance of Ethical Theory to IRB Chapter 4. A Retrospective IRB Review: Rehabilitating Milgram, Zimbardo and Humphreys Chapter 5. Journalist Ethics Does Not Equal Social Scientists Ethics Chapter 6. Community-Engaged Research and Ethnography: Extreme Misfits with the Medical Model Chapter 7. Communicating Informed Consent and Process Consent Chapter 8. Degrees of non-Disclosure Chapter 9. Strategies for Assuring Confidentiality Chapter 10. The Ethics for the Invisible, Powerless and Vulnerable Research Assistant Chapter 11. Why IRBs Have an Important Place: The Autoethnographic Experiment Chapter 12. Evidence-Based Ethical Problem Solving: A Research Agenda Chapter 13. Making Ethics Review a Learning Institution: Ten Simple Suggestions
