Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research

by Laura Stark

Book Overview

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as their present, and Behind Closed Doors is the first book to meld firsthand observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226770877
• ISBN13: 9780226770871
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"