Institutional Review Boards and Public Justification

Ethics committees like Institutional Review Boards and Research Ethics Committees are typically empowered to approve or reject proposed studies, typically conditional on certain conditions or revisions being met. While some have argued this power should be primarily a function of applying clear, cod...

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Authors: Muralidharan, Anantharaman (Author) ; Schaefer, G. Owen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2023
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 405-423
Further subjects:B Institutional Review Boards
B Public Justification
B Knowledge and Disagreement
B Moral Demands
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