Walking the Tightrope

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Pub. Date: 2002-12-01
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Summary

Are formal ethics research guidelines congruent with the aims and methodology of inductive and qualitative social research? Using the experiences of 16 Canadian, American, and British researchers, this collection explores answers to the question.

Author Biography

Will C. van den Hoonaard is a Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction: Ethical Norming and Qualitative Research 3(14)
Will C. van den Hoonaard
Good Intentions and Awkward Outcomes: Ethical Gatekeeping in Field Research
17(9)
Patrick O'Neill
Yet Another Coming Crisis? Coping with Guidelines from the Tri-Council
26(8)
Florence Kellner
Do University Lawyers and the Police Define Research Values?
34(9)
Patricia A. Adler
Peter Adler
Challenging the System: Rethinking Ethics Review of Social Research in Britain's National Health Service
43(16)
Melanie Pearce
Reflections on Professional Ethics
59(11)
John M. Johnson
David L. Altheide
Confidentiality and Anonymity: Promises and Practices
70(9)
Linda Snyder
Biting the Hand That Feeds You, and Other Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork
79(16)
Merlinda Weinberg
My Research Friend? My Friend the Researcher? My Friend, My Researcher? Mis/Informed Consent and People with Developmental Disabilities
95(12)
S. Anthony Thompson
Hazel the Dental Assistant and the Research Dilemma of (Re) presenting a Life Story: The Clash of Narratives
107(17)
Erin Mills
Breaking In: Compromises in Participatory Field Research within Closed Institutions
124(13)
Mary Stratton
The Harmomy of Resistance: Qualitative Research and Ethical Practice in Social Work
137(15)
Michael Ungarand Gillian Nichol
Pace of Technological Change: Battling Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research
152(8)
Barbara Theresa Waruszynski
The Tri-Council on Cyberspace: Insights, Oversights, and Extrapolations
160(15)
Heather A. Kitchin
Some Concluding Thoughts 175(14)
Will C. van den Hoonaard
References 189(18)
Index 207

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