Is compliance a professional virtue of researchers? Reflections on promoting the responsible conduct of research
Is compliance a professional virtue of researchers? Reflections on promoting the responsible conduct of research
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10.1207/s15327019eb1404_8
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2004-01-01
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DuBois, JM
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作者：
DuBois, JM
有证据表明，从20世纪70年代到今天，行为和社会科学研究人员一直对法规和机构审查委员会（IRB）感到沮丧。更糟糕的是，许多人类参与者保护指导计划-现在由IRB强制执行-提供了研究人员应该遵守法规和IRB的充分理由。促进遵守，无论是为了遵守本身，还是为了避免惩罚，都违背了道德教育的发展目标，可能无法有效地促进负责任的研究行为。本文探讨了职业道德的概念，并认为，遵守是能够成为一种职业道德一样，科学诚信。然而，这就要求监管和IRB的要求有助于人类福祉和研究作为一种职业的目标，因此，研究人员将监管和IRB要求的规范内化。这反过来又要求社会发展、颁布和执行监管和IRB规则的方式发生一系列变化。简单地说，挑战在于将遵守纳入生活道德的世界。
Evidence exists that behavioral and social science researchers have been frustrated with regulations and institutional review boards (IRBs) from the 1970s through today. Making matters worse, many human participants protection instruction programs-now mandated by IRBs-offer inadequate reasons why researchers should comply with regulations and IRBs. Promoting compliance either for its own sake or to avoid penalties is contrary to the developmental aims of moral education and may be ineffective in fostering the responsible conduct of research. This article explores the concept of professional virtue and argues that compliance is capable of becoming a professional virtue like scientific honesty. This requires, however, that regulatory and IRB demands contribute to human well-being and to the aims of research as a profession and that researchers, therefore, internalize the norms that underlie regulatory and IRB demands. This, in turn, requires a series of changes in the way society develops, promulgates, and enforces regulatory and IRB rules. The challenge is, simply put, to embed compliance into the world of living morality.