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Taking Names: The Ethics of Indirect Recruitment in Research on Sexual Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Lewis H. Margolis
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Evaluating the risks and anticipated benefits of medical, behavioral and, social research is a central function of institutional review boards (IRBs). The calculation that IRBs undertake ultimately determines whether a particular research project involving human participants is permitted to proceed. In medical research the physical harms and even the anticipated benefits of a new procedure or drug are often apparent and quantifiable. In contrast, for social/behavioral research that may involve probing the most intimate feelings, thoughts, and actions of participants, the weighing of risks and anticipated benefits, the calculation of possible harms and the acceptability of that harm require a more intense level of scrutiny.

Even the early step of identifying and recruiting participants for a research endeavor may potentially cause harm, making participant selection a focus of IRB analysis.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , Summer 2000 , pp. 159 - 164
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2000

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