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Objectivity and Bias in Sociological Studies: A Rejoinder to 'Social Science Knowledge and Its Evaluation'

Tatla, Darshan - eSocialSciences - 2006

Does a social scientist need to renounce his ethnicity in order to be objective and unbiased? The issue of how and why scholars choose their subjects and approaches has been debated for almost a century in many disciplines, first as 'insiders-outsiders', 'inâ€™cross-cultural studies' and in...

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Is There a Global Bioethics? End-of-Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference

Stonington, Scott; Ratanakul, Pinit - eSocialSciences - 2007

As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insufﬁ cient to solve the problems that arise in the practice of allopathic medicine in...

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Ethics and the World of Finance

Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2009

How do we, as individuals, approach issues of ethics and values? Are our approaches different in our personal and … professional lives? Are issues of ethics different in the financial sector? What are the ethical issues thrown up by the current …? Some of these questions are addressed here. [Keynote address at the Conference on â€˜Ethics and the World of Financeâ …

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Ethics Without Borders

eSocialSciences; Plos medicine Editors - 2009

The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic. It discusses particularly the role of journals when papers arising from such research...

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Book Review: This is Water: The Ethics of Memory

Barker, Jeffrey H. - eSocialSciences - 2007

This review of Avishai Margalit's The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, 2004. New York) explores the ethical …

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Ethics in Health Research: A Social Science Perspective

Jaitly, Tejal Barai; Jesani, Amar - eSocialSciences - 2007

in ethics in the social sciences. Some papers elaborate on practitionersâ€™ experiences that illustrate these principles …

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Ethics in Social Science Research: Reflections from a Student of Economics

Swaminathan, Padmini - eSocialSciences - 2006

If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring food security) then the discipline of economics needs to pose its problem differently. The...

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Application Of Ethical Principles With Cultural Sensitivity: Case Study Of Research Among Tribal Population

Sajitha O.G; Ramanathan, Mala - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper aims to bring out the need to incorporate cultural sensitivity to ensure the principle of essentiality in research processes while undertaking research among tribal populations. The authors establish the difference in the outcome of obtaining consent between tribal and other...

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Ethics in Sociological and Social Anthropological Research: A Brief Note

Shah, A. M. - eSocialSciences - 2006

While there is a considerable body of writing on ethics in social sciences in general, in India ethical issues need to …

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Research Ethics in Use of Statistical Methods*

Mishra, Udaya S. - eSocialSciences - 2006

and the manner in which research findings are disseminated. This leads to a consideration of two levels of ethics while …

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