Historians and Institutional Review Boards: A Brief Bibliography

 

 

Begley, Sharon.  “Review Boards Pose Threat to Tough Work by Social Scientists.”  Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2002, B1.

 

Bliss, Alan. "Oral History Research." In Institutional Review Board Management and Function, edited by Robert J. Amdur, M.D. and Elizabeth A. Bankert.  Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2002.

 

Brainard, Jeffrey.  "The Wrong Rules for Social Science?" The Chronicle of Higher  Education, March 9, 2001, A21. Available at http://chronicle.com for those with a subscription to the Chronicle.

 

Church, Jonathan T., Linda Shopes, and Margaret A. Blanchard, “Should All Disciplines Be Subject to the Common Rule?” Academe 88:3 (May-June 2002), 62-69.

http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/02mj/02mjftr.htm 

 

COSSA Washington Update.  http://www.cossa.org

Newsletter of the Consortium of Social Science Associations; provides regular coverage of current federal issues/debates/actions related to human subjects review; searchable online.

 

Division of Contracts, Policy, and Oversight, National Science Foundation, “Frequently Asked Questions and Vignettes:  Interpreting the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects for Behavioral and Social Science Research,”  http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/policy/hsfaqs.htm

A useful website for understanding and interpreting the Common Rule as it applies to nonbiomedical research. 

 

Gordon, Michael, “Historians and Review Boards,” Perspectives, 35:6 (September 1997), 35-37. 

Includes a sample description of an oral history project for IRB  review.

 

Gunsalus, C. K., “Rethinking Protections for Human Subjects, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2002, B24.

 

Human Subject Protection Regulations and Research Outside the Biomedical Sphere, a

working conference sponsored by the College of Law, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, April 11-12, 2003; [position papers available at http://www.law.uiuc.edu/conferences/humansubject/papers.asp]

 

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Belmont Report:  Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research.  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

[http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.htm

The landmark federal report that defined the fundamental ethical principles to govern research on human subjects.

Nelson, Cary, “Can E.T. Phone Home?  The Brave New World of University Surveillance,” Academe, 89 (September/October 2003).

http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/03so/03sonels.htm

 

Oral History Evaluation Guidelines, rev. ed.  Carlisle, Pa.: Oral History Association, 2000.

http://www.dickinson.edu/oha/Evaluation_Guidelines.html

 

“Protecting Human Beings: Institutional Review Boards and Social Science Research,” Academe, 87:3 (May-June 2001), 55-67.  http://www.aaup.org/statements/Redbook/repirb.htm

A thorough discussion of the difficulties of applying regulations developed within a biomedical frame to nonbiomedical research; useful as a reference in discussions with IRBs.

 

Sieber, John E., Stuart Platter, and Philip Rubin, “How (Not) to Regulate Social and Behavioral Research,” Professional Ethics Report, XV:2 (Spring 2002), 1-3.

http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/per/per29.htm#cover

 

Shea, Christopher, “Don’t Talk to the Humans: The Crackdown on Social Science Research,” Linguafranca, 10:6 (September 2000), 27-34 .

http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0009/humans.html 

 

Shopes, Linda, “Institutional Review Boards Have a Chilling Effect on Oral History,” AHA Perspectives, 38:6 (September 2000), 34-37.[ http://www.theaha.org/perspectives/issues/2000/0009/0009vie1.cfm ]

 

----------, “Historians and Human-Subjects Research, Recent Science Newsletter, 2:3 (Spring  2001), 6ff.

 

Sieber, John E., Stuart Platter, and Philip Rubin, “How (Not) to Regulate Social Behavioral Research,” Professional Ethics Report, 15 (Spring 2002), 1-3

http://www.aaas.org/spp/spfrl/per/per29.htm#cover

 

Speers, Marjorie A., “Accreditation Helps Researchers and Subjects Alike,” APS [American Psychological Society] Observer, 16 (May 2003), 9.

 

Title 45 (Public Welfare) Code of Federal Regulations, Part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects).

[ http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm ] These are the federal regulations governing research on human subjects, available at the website of the Office of Human Research Protections/US Department of Health & Human Services, which has responsibility for implementing them.  OHRP’s website includes considerable additional information related to the regulations, their implications, and implementation.  Home page is http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/index.html.

 

Vagts, Rachel, “Clashing Disciplines: Oral History and the Institutional Review Board,” Archival Issues 26:2 (2002), 145-152.

 

                    [Prepared by Linda Shopes, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission]