Modernization Updates to the Common Rule: Recommendations for Researchers Working With Human Participants

Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn

“…As IRBs navigated their responsibilities to participants, researchers, and federal oversight bodies, both IRBs and the Common Rule were widely critiqued as overtly positivistic and paternalistic (e.g., Gunsalus et al, 2007; Schneider, 2015; Schrag, 2010; Tuck & Guishard, 2013). The revised Common Rule addresses many of these concerns in nuanced ways (see, e.g., Phelps, 2020b). But the current policy retains many characteristics of the original Common Rule, including the opportunity for wide interpretation and application by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs; Lipsky, 2010).…”