Regulating Human Research - Irbs From Peer Review to Compliance Bureaucracy

This book traces the historic transformation of institutional review boards (IRBs) from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies. Sarah Babb opens the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, which is increasingly outsourced to specialized private firms.

List of contents

Introduction

1. The Federal Crackdown and the Twilight of Approximate Compliance

2. Leaving It to the Professionals

3. Organizing for Efficiency

4. Ethics Review, Inc.

5. The Common Rule and Social Research

6. Varieties of Compliance

Conclusion

About the author

Sarah Babb is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, and author of many published works exploring the connections among organizations, professions, and the state. She served on the Boston College IRB for three years.

Summary

This book traces the historic transformation of institutional review boards (IRBs) from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies. Sarah Babb opens the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, which is increasingly outsourced to specialized private firms.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Babb
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781503610149
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1014-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Organisationstheorie und -verhalten