Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics

Short History of Research Ethics with Selected Cases

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Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research

“…Haggerty (2004) points out that historically, the status of 'ethical research' was insured through discipline-specific codes of conduct and diligent peer review, and not by means of bureaucratic oversight. Beyond the obvious indicators of research misconduct -fabrication, falsification and plagiarism -the increased focus on ethical regulation in the humanities now allows for several levels of institutional control not previously present.…”

“…Several scholars have argued that the rise in ethical regulation in the humanities should be viewed with caution (see Cribb 2004;Dingwall 2008;Guta et al 2013;Haggerty 2004;Nixon and Wilson 2013;Schrag 2011). Kevin Haggerty identifies a global increase in ethical regulation of research in the humanities, and refers to this phenomenon as an 'ethics creep' (Haggerty 2004): a system of pre-emptive and post-fact ethical regulation that is becoming a major threat to research in the humanities and social sciences.…”

“…Kevin Haggerty identifies a global increase in ethical regulation of research in the humanities, and refers to this phenomenon as an 'ethics creep' (Haggerty 2004): a system of pre-emptive and post-fact ethical regulation that is becoming a major threat to research in the humanities and social sciences. This type of regulation has been transplanted to the humanities from the biomedical sciences, where ethical regulation became significant in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the Nuremberg trials (see Dingwall 2008;Jacob and Riles 2007;Resnik 2009); the adoption of ethical regulations in biomedical research has by now become standard practice in most institutions worldwide (Brody 1998;CIOMS 2002;McCrary et al 2000;Steneck 2007).…”

Problem or safeguard? Research ethics review in social care research and the Mental Capacity Act 2005

“…However, increased ethical review and research governance has been criticised by medical researchers (Wald, 2004;Walley, 2006), psychologists (Malouff and Schutte, 2005) and social scientists who believe ethical scrutiny has been transported from biomedical research and developed insidiously as a form of 'ethics creep' (Haggerty, 2004), or represents a fundamentally flawed and anti-democratic attack on social research (Dingwall, 2006;.…”