Research Ethics
Scholarly Articles

The following is a list of scholarly articles that have addressed concerns about research ethics regimes. In the United States the counterpart to the Canadian Research Ethics Boards are the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). Many of these articles address concerns with the US research ethics regime and its IRBs that are similar to concerns expressed in Canada. An upcoming issue of the American Political Science Association’s PS: Political Science and Politics will have a symposium on problems associated with research ethics which will include a contribution on the Canadian situation.

Bergeron, Michel (2001) "NOTE: L'éthique et la recherche en science sociale: Le suivi des projets de recherche: l'articulation entre une visée éthique et son application." Les Cahiers de Droit 42, June, p. 315.

Bosk, Charles L. and Raymond G. De Vries (2004) "Bureaucracies of Mass Deception: Institutional Review Boards and the Ethics of Ethnographic Research" The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science September, 595, p. 249.

Chalmers, Don (2004). "Symposium Article: Part 2: Research Ethics: Research Involving Humans: A Time for Change?" Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Winter, 2004, 32 p. 583.

Grayson, J. P. and R. Myles (2005). "How research ethics boards are undermining survey research on Canadian university students" Journal of Academic Ethics 2(4): 293-314.

Haggerty, K. D. (2004). "Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics." Qualitative Sociology 27(4): 391-414.

Hamburger, Philip (2004). “The New Censorship: Institutional Review Boards,” The Supreme Court Review. 271.

Hoonaard, W. C. v. d. (2001). "Is Research-Ethics Review a Moral Panic?" Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 38(1): 19-36.

Hoonaard, W. C. v. d., Ed. (2003). Walking the Tightrope: Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers Toronto, University of Toronto Press.

Jacob, Marie Andrée and Annelise Riles (2007). « The New Bureaucracies of Virtue: Introduction.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 30:2, pp. 181-191.

Kerr Robert L. (2006). “Unconstitutional Review Board? Considering A First Amendment Challenge to IRB Regulation of Journalistic Research Methods.” Communication Law and Policy, Summer, 11, p. 393.

Kitchin, H. A. (2003). "The Tri-Council Policy Statement and Research in Cyberspace: Research Ethics, the Internet, and Revising a ‘Living Document’ " Journal of Academic Ethics 1(4): 397-418.

Lederman, Rena (2006). "Introduction: Anxious borders between work and life in a time of bureaucratic ethics regulation." American Ethnologist, 33(4), pp. 477–481.

Lederman, Rena (2006). "The perils of working at home: ‘IRB “mission creep’ as context and content for an ethnography of disciplinary knowledges," American Ethnologist, 33(4), pp. 482–491.

White, Ronald F. (2007). "The Common Rule, Social Science, and the Nanny State", The Independent Review, v. XI, n. 4, Spring, pp. 547-564.

The following articles are from: "SYMPOSIUM: Censorship and Institutional Review Board" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, 2007. This is available without charge on the internet at http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/issues/101.2.html

Bledsoe, Caroline H., Bruce Sherin, Adam G. Galinsky, Nathalia M. Headley, Carol A. Heimer, Erik Kjeldgaard, James Lindgren, Jon D. Miller, Michael E. Roloff & David H. Uttal (2007) "Regulating Creativity: Research and Survival in the IRB Iron Cage", Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101. p. 593.

Burris, Scott and Jen Welsh (2007). "Regulatory Paradox: A Review of Enforcement Letters Issued By the Office For Human Research Protection" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 643.

Charrow, Robert (2007). "Protection Of Human Subjects: Is Expansive Regulation Counter-Productive?" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 707.

Epstein, Richard A. (2007). "Defanging IRBs: Replacing Coercion with Information" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 735.

Hamburger, Philip (2007). "Getting Permission" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 405.

Hyman, David A. (2007). "Institutional Review Boards: Is this the Least Worst we can Do?" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 749.

Lindgren, James, Dennis Murashko and Matthew R. Ford (2007). "Forward: (2007). On Censorship and Institutional Review Boards" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 399.

Menikoff, Jerry (2007). "Where's The Law? Uncovering the Truth about IRBs and Censorship" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 791.

Mueller, John H. (2007). "Ignorance is Neither Bliss nor Ethical" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 809.

Simmerling, Mary, Brian Schwegler, Joan E. Sieber & James Lindgren (2007). "Introducing a new Paradigm for Ethical Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences: Part I" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 837.

Weinstein, James (2007). "Institutional Review Boards and the Constitution" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 493.

Weinstein, James (2007). "The Dimensions Of Constitutional Analysis: A Reply to Professor Hamburger" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 569.

Zywicki, Todd J. (2007). "Institutional Review Boards As Academic Bureaucracies: An Economic and Experiential Analysis" Northwestern University Law Review Special Issue, Volume 101, p. 861