Taking the "I" out of IRB--and putting "community" in.
If one looks back on the history of American research ethics, a bold pattern emerges. Since World War II, about every twenty years or so a breach of the social contract between investigators and human research subjects galvanizes public and professional interest in the ethical foundations and oversight mechanisms governing research with humans.
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