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The Ideology of the Federal Policy and Institutional Review Boards and its Effects on Research

The Federal Policy for the protection of human subjects in research is built on a positivist ideology which effects Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and the research it reviews. An ideological criticism of the regulations through a positivist and postmodernist perspective reveals its initial purpose for biomedical research and its negative effects on research not discussed during its development. Such effects are a shift in focus on regulation over ethics in IRBs, extended oversight of regulations, revisions in research design and objectives, and self-regulation through the punishment of noncompliance.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:pacific.edu/oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-1207
Date01 January 2013
CreatorsVargas, Leah E.
PublisherScholarly Commons
Source SetsUniversity of the Pacific
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceUniversity of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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