Written work: The social functions of Research Ethics Committee letters
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Written work: the social functions of Research Ethics Committee letters.
Research Ethics Committees (RECs) are increasingly institutionalised as a feature of research practice, but have remained strangely neglected by social scientists. In this paper, we argue that analysis of letters from RECs to researchers offers important insights into how RECs operate. We report a traditional content analysis and an ethnographic content analysis of 141 letters to researchers, t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.046