The Perspective of an IRB Member

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Notes

1. This is discussed in some depth in Hanson, Stephen S. (2009), pp. 41–46.

2. It would be less true, perhaps, of psychological research performed on subjects who are largely psychology students. But this sort of research is not Edwards's main concern here.

3. See, e.g., Sulmasy et al. (2010) and de Melo-Martin and Ho (2008).

4. Though Edwards discusses the concept of harm to subjects themselves, she gives no argument for why contracts would provide better protection. One can conceive of how she might be able to, but I do not address that here.