This article concerns the validity of six canonical rules that institutional review boards use to constrain the behavior of investigators. These rules require investigators to design their studies in a scientifically valid way, not pay their subjects to take risks, minimize risks to their...

Moral panic analysis needs reconnecting to mainstream sociological theory. A potential connection is via moral regulation. The origins and development of moral regulation, and its application to moral panics, are traced through the work of Corrigan and Sayer, Hunt and Hier. While it appears...

This paper addresses two questions, "What is Europe?" and "Can there be a moral case for what is, after all, only a geographical expression?" In the paper, the word 'Europe' is used in a wide sense, not confined to the European Union