Overview
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.
- | Author: Sarah Babb
- | Publisher: Stanford University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 184 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1503610144
- | ISBN-13: 9781503610149
