Responsibility, Expertise and Trust: Institutional Ethics Committees and Science

This paper addresses what should be an important question for many institutional ethics committees: How might they justifiably trust external peer review of the scientific merit of research proposals under their consideration, since these committees are typically not constituted to review the scien...

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Main Author: Suzanne Uniacke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente 2015-05-01
Series:Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
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Online Access:http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/86
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spelling doaj-fd3df1ffec3a48f5a22faf9119459df92020-11-25T00:12:44ZengAssociazione Culturale Humana.MenteHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies1972-12932015-05-01828Responsibility, Expertise and Trust: Institutional Ethics Committees and ScienceSuzanne Uniacke0Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Australia This paper addresses what should be an important question for many institutional ethics committees: How might they justifiably trust external peer review of the scientific merit of research proposals under their consideration, since these committees are typically not constituted to review the science themselves? http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/86expertisepeer reviewethics committee
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title Responsibility, Expertise and Trust: Institutional Ethics Committees and Science
title_short Responsibility, Expertise and Trust: Institutional Ethics Committees and Science
title_full Responsibility, Expertise and Trust: Institutional Ethics Committees and Science
title_fullStr Responsibility, Expertise and Trust: Institutional Ethics Committees and Science
title_full_unstemmed Responsibility, Expertise and Trust: Institutional Ethics Committees and Science
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publisher Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente
series Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
issn 1972-1293
publishDate 2015-05-01
description This paper addresses what should be an important question for many institutional ethics committees: How might they justifiably trust external peer review of the scientific merit of research proposals under their consideration, since these committees are typically not constituted to review the science themselves?
topic expertise
peer review
ethics committee
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