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Regulating human research : IRBs from peer review to compliance bureaucracy / Sarah Babb

Author
Babb, Sarah L.
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
ix, 171 pages ; 22 cm

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Contents
The federal crackdown and the twilight of approximate compliance -- Leaving it to the professionals -- Organizing for efficiency -- Ethics Review, Inc. -- The common rule and social research -- Accounting for efficiency.
Summary
Institutional review boards (IRBs) are panels charged with protecting the rights of humans who participate in research studies ranging from biomedicine to social science. Regulating Human Research provides a fresh look at these influential and sometimes controversial boards, tracing their historic transformation from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies: non-governmental offices where specialized staff define and apply federal regulations. In opening the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, author Sarah Babb argues that compliance bureaucracy is an adaptive response to the dynamics and dysfunctions of American governance. Yet this solution has had unforeseen consequences, including the rise of a profitable ethics review industry.
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ISBN
9781503610149 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1503610144 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781503611221 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1503611221 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
James F. Robb Fund
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