The Hazardous Consent Forms

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The Hazardous Consent Forms

What is this about?

Anthropologist discovers that nurses who are supposed to be obtaining signed consent for a study from the female heroin users who are the subject of the study are obtaining verbal consent instead, as the subjects are reluctant to sign an admission of legal wrong-doing. The anthropologst debates whether to hide the lack of signed consent from the Institutional Review Board in order to protect his subjects (as he sees it) and continue the resarch.

For whom is this important?

Academic staffAnthropologists

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• Honesty
• Respect
• Accountability

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Research Area

• SH - Social Sciences and Humanities