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Article: The long arm of administrative law: applying administrative law principles to research ethics boards.(Canada)(Special Issue: Canadian Governance for Ethical Research Involving Humans)
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- Health Law Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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I. Introduction
Commentators have described the primary responsibility of research ethics boards (REBs) as that of ensuring that research projects involving human participants commence, or continue, only if the participants "are adequately informed, freely consent to participate, and ... are not exposed to unreasonable risks of physical, social, psychological and economic harms that might occur as a result of participation." (1) Whether REBs have the authority needed to perform this responsibility is a question that has animated much of the recent discussion over governance of the Canadian ethics review system. That discussion has been largely premised on a ...