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Date Posted: 09:27:31 01/31/07 Wed
Author: Miriam Dolin
Subject: Ethics in Research

I find ethics in research very intriguing. Chapter two in the book touched on ethics at the end. I imagine most of us have heard of various studies that clearly violate ethics (perhaps human ethics as well as research ethics), these are the studies where people respond with an audible gasp because of the atrocities committed during the study. But surely researchers violate the rights of the participants in their studies everyday, often without knowing it. There is an interesting debate behind these “mild” violations, especially if we can assume the participants are willing adults. If the adult participants willingly agree to be in the study and know they can leave whenever they want, shouldn’t we in some way recognize their autonomy and ability to make decisions for their own good? I can see a fine line between ethical boundaries and patronizing the participants (and therein setting up a moral or social hierarchy with the researchers “above” the participants). Certainly, if the study requires children or people with limited mental or physical function, the need for ethics becomes much stronger. I am not saying we don’t need ethics, I just think it is an interesting discussion.

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