Guta, Adrian; Nixon, Stephanie A.; Wilson, Michael G. - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 301-310
In this paper we examine “ethics creep”, a concept developed by Haggerty (2004) to account for the increasing bureaucratization of research ethics boards and institutional review boards (REB/IRBs) and the expanding reach of ethics review. We start with an overview of the recent surge of...