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Judging the ethics of qualitative research
— considering the 'ethics as process' model | | Author(s) | Paul Ramcharan, John R Cutcliffe |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 9, no 6, November 2001 |
| Pages | pp 358-366 |
| Keywords | Social ethics ; Qualitative Studies ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | Decision-making about the ethics of qualitative research is problematic, where the research design is emergent, and the balance between risks and benefits for research subjects are difficult to ascertain prior to study implementation. The discourses of health / medical research ethics and those of social research are shown to be divergent; furthermore, where ethical committees tie themselves to the health / medical model of ethical decision-making, qualitative research approaches can be disadvantaged. Having demonstrated the dual discourses and their relevance to qualitative research ethics, a critical review of current approaches to maximising the success of qualitative research proposals being considered for approval by ethics committees is undertaken. This leads to a call for a system of monitoring qualitative research so that the "benefit to risk" ratio is always on the side of benefit. This has implications for the ways in which ethics committees are organised and then function. A postscript notes that at the time of this article's publication, the Department of Health (DH) launched a consultation on "An ethical review of social care research". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020109207 A |
| Classmark | TQ: 3DP: 3D |
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