Comments on: “Research” as not-Therapy (or: Why “research” is dangerous and must be controlled): An IRB origin tale http://savageminds.org/2007/03/15/research-as-not-therapy-or-why-research-is-dangerous-and-must-be-controlled-an-irb-origin-tale/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: strong http://savageminds.org/2007/03/15/research-as-not-therapy-or-why-research-is-dangerous-and-must-be-controlled-an-irb-origin-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-58191 strong Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:16:19 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/03/15/research-as-not-therapy-or-why-research-is-dangerous-and-must-be-controlled-an-irb-origin-tale/#comment-58191 Yes I think this post is enormously helpful Rena. Thanks! On 'therapy': do we know how therapists (i.e., shrinks) regulate their ethics and research? I know that many therapists use the knowledge they gain from therapy sessions for their professional publications. Who exercises oversight in that case? Yes I think this post is enormously helpful Rena. Thanks!

On ‘therapy’: do we know how therapists (i.e., shrinks) regulate their ethics and research? I know that many therapists use the knowledge they gain from therapy sessions for their professional publications. Who exercises oversight in that case?

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]]> By: ckelty http://savageminds.org/2007/03/15/research-as-not-therapy-or-why-research-is-dangerous-and-must-be-controlled-an-irb-origin-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-57131 ckelty Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:15:26 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/03/15/research-as-not-therapy-or-why-research-is-dangerous-and-must-be-controlled-an-irb-origin-tale/#comment-57131 a good example of the therapy/research enigma from my own IRB experience: one of the longest conversations I've ever experienced concerned the question of what should be done if, in the course of a standard cognitive science experiment involving fMRI scans of a subject's brain, "something" "is" found"--the quotes indicate just how much discussion there was. The gist of it was something like, if there is evidence of a tumor, does the researcher have to tell the subject, but if they do so are they acting as a doctor, but if they don't, are they violating that person's right to know, but if they do, and it turns out to be benign, do they not cause undue psychological suffering, but if they dont... you get the picture. I'm sure Rena has seen plenty of similar discussions--but I never quite hit on the therapy/research distinction as the root of the problem, so this is clarifying. a good example of the therapy/research enigma from my own IRB experience: one of the longest conversations I’ve ever experienced concerned the question of what should be done if, in the course of a standard cognitive science experiment involving fMRI scans of a subject’s brain, “something” “is” found”–the quotes indicate just how much discussion there was. The gist of it was something like, if there is evidence of a tumor, does the researcher have to tell the subject, but if they do so are they acting as a doctor, but if they don’t, are they violating that person’s right to know, but if they do, and it turns out to be benign, do they not cause undue psychological suffering, but if they dont… you get the picture. I’m sure Rena has seen plenty of similar discussions–but I never quite hit on the therapy/research distinction as the root of the problem, so this is clarifying.

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