Seduction of Ethics

Preface Acknowledgments Figures and Tables * INTRODUCTION Premise of The Seduction of Ethics Ignorance and Scholarship The Scholarship on the Metabolism of Research-Ethics Review Conceptual Scheme Research Methods Outline of The Seduction of Ethics* AN ARCHEOLOGY OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW Outside the Ethics Regime: What Drives the System of Ethics Review? Inside the System: Institutionalization of Research-Ethics Review* THE CRITICISMS OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW Does the Ethics Regime Offer an Inappropriate Model for Social Science Research? Is Research Ethics Strangling Legitimate Research? Does Ethics Review Curtail Academic Freedom? Are Ethics Committees Bureaucracies? Does Ethics Review Develop and Maintain the Hegemony of Ethics Committees? Attempts to Negotiate the Two Worlds and Transcend the Criticisms: The Perspectives of Ethics Committees* WHAT IS THE NORMATIVE ETHICS FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL RESEARCHERS? The 'Subject' in International and National Research-Ethics Codes Bursting the Contemporary Ethics Bubble: Three Case Studies * STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF RESEARCH-ETHICS COMMITTEES Ethics Committees as Part of the University Membership Jurisdictional Power and Independence Workload* THE MORAL COSMOLOGY OF THE ETHICS-REVIEW WORLD About Themselves About Researchers About Research Participants* PROCEDURAL ROUTINES: THE APPLICATION FORM AND THE CONSENT FORM The Application Form The Consent Form * THE MEETING: MAKING AGENDAS AND DECISIONS Attendance and Membership The Career of the Agenda Paradigms and Perspectives that Shape the Conversation about Ethics Making Decisions without Principles* AN IDIOSYNCRATIC AND INCONSISTENTWORLD: COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN REBS AND RESEARCHERS Interpretation as the Basis of Idiosyncrasies and Inconsistencies Communications to Researchers/Language of (Dis)approval Content Language REB Communications inside the Larger Context of the Ethics Regime* THE UNDERLIFE OF RESEARCH-ETHICS REVIEW: PREPARING AN APPLICATION The 'Hurt Perspective' The Researcher's Moral Career Warming up (or Not) to Submitting the Proposal Preparing for the 'News'* SECONDARY ADJUSTMENTS BY RESEARCHERS Reactions by Researchers to Ethics Reviews Applying Secondary Adjustments The Social Situation of Students in the Ethics-Review Process* THE BELEAGUERED METHODS General Considerations about Redirecting Research The Declining Use of Particular Methods* ON THEORY, TOPICS, AND FAVOURED METHODS