Assessing Social Science Research Ethics and Integrity: Case Studies and Essays

ISBN-13: 9783031345371 / Angielski

Harry Perlstadt

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jan Marie Fritz

Preface 

Chapter 1.  Introduction

The Chapters

Concluding Comments

References

Part I Essays

Chapter 2. A History of Social Science Ethics and Regulations in the US

Introduction

The Evolution of Medical Research Ethics

Developing US Biomedical and Social Science Research Ethics

Revising the Common Rule (45 CFR 46) 1995-2018

Conclusions

References

Chapter 3. IRBs and Police Power: The Intersection of Law and Ethics

Introduction

Folkways, Mores and Laws

Police Power

Limiting IRB Excesses

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Part 2 Case Studies

Chapter 4. The US Public Health Tuskegee Syphilis Study: A Sociological Perspective

Introduction

Background and Context of Syphilis Study

The USPHS Tuskegee Longitudinal Study

The Exposé

After the Exposé

Discussion and Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 5. The Wichita Jury Study: Violating a Sacred Trust

Introduction

The Chicago Jury Project

The Scandal

Subsequent Studies

Discussion and Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 6. Obedience to Authority: A Whirlwind of Controversy

Introduction

Background

The Controversy

Non-Laboratory Replications

Discussion and Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 7. Tearoom Trade: The Ethics of Studying Social Problems

Introduction

Study Background and Description

The Ethics Controversy

Related Participant Observations of the Period

Humphreys’ Impact on Ethics

Discussion and Conclusion

References

Chapter 8. The Stanford Prison Experiment: The Power of the Situation

Introduction

Preliminary Experiments

From Application through Prisoner Rebellion

Who’s Who in the Experiment

Discussion and Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 9. The Yanomami: A Case of Retrospective Ethics

Introduction

Napoleon Chagnon

The Acrimonious Debate

Ethical Issues

Conclusion

Acknowledgement

References

Index

 

O autorze

Harry Perlstadt, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Michigan State University and served for five years as Director of the MSU Bioethics, Humanities, and Society Program. He has worked on evaluations of community health delivery for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, safe and drug-free school curricula for the Michigan Department of Community Health, and national environmental health polices and action plans in Europe for the World Health Organization/Europe. He is active in the American Public Health Association having served on its Science Board and represented the Ethics Section on its Governing Council. His publications include chapters on applied sociology in 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Ethics and Values in Sociological Practice in Doing Sociology: Case Studies in Sociological Practice, and The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement in Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives. He has published articles on Milgram’s Obedience to Authority and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiments. He received the American Sociological Association’s 2014 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.

Blurb

This book discusses the development of key issues in research ethics relevant for clinical sociologists, concerning client rights to confidentiality, privacy, and informed consent. It describes the US human research protection system used by clinical and applied sociologists, through a history of research ethics, including the landmark Belmont Report and the creation of the regulatory structure of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in the United States. It also discusses ethical research systems in other nations like Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The book provides a comprehensive account of controversial studies in the US, including Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment, and the US Public Health Service, and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and analyzes how ethical concerns in these studies were or were not resolved. 

This book covers a topic of core interest to clinical and applied sociologists and other social science practitioners who do research, as well as students and teachers in research ethics courses in anthropology, psychology, political science, sociology, and philosophy, thereby broadening an awareness of clinical sociology.