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    The Wrong Paradigm? Social Research and the Predicates of Ethical Scrutiny
    with Jennifer Burr
    Research Ethics 6 (4): 128-133. 2010.
    We aim, in this paper, to discuss how far the ethical framework for assessing medical research, generalized into other institutional settings, is also appropriate for social science research, particularly qualitative research. Recently, researchers have raised concerns about ‘ethics creep’, incompatibility with participatory methodologies and the exclusion of service users. Researchers are increasingly raising questions as to whether the processes of governance and the paradigmatic assumptions p…Read more