Regulating Human Research – IRBs from Peer Review to Compliance Bureaucracy Babb

Regulating Human Research – IRBs from Peer Review to Compliance Bureaucracy Babb

Regulating Human ResearchIRBs from Peer Review to Compliance Bureaucracy\nAuthor(s): Sarah Babb\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503610149, 978-1503610149\nSynopsis\nInstitutional review boards (IRBs) are panels charged with protecting the rights of humans who participate in research studies ranging from biomedicine to social science. Regulating Human Research provides a fresh look at these influential and sometimes controversial boards, tracing their historic transformation from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies: non-governmental offices where specialized staff define and apply federal regulations. In opening the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, author Sarah Babb argues that compliance bureaucracy is an adaptive response to the dynamics and dysfunctions of American governance. Yet this solution has had unforeseen consequences, including the rise of a profitable ethics .

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