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Social sciences research: ethical and policy implications
Author(s) -
Cohen Lois K.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1977.tb01010.x
Subject(s) - respondent , medicine , referral , subject matter , public relations , engineering ethics , internet privacy , law , family medicine , political science , computer science , curriculum , engineering
Ethical issues are raised about the conduct of social research in the dental field particularly with respect to the use of survey methodology and aggregated data. Problems associated with respondent identifiers, open‐ended and probing questioning, privacy of subject‐matter, community contamination and burden, group stereotyping, knowledge of law violations, misuse of data banks, re‐use of data, effects of disclosure, and referral for treatment are discussed. The natural and the contrived social experiments are reviewed as well as the issue of needed research on the effects of regulation on science and on the protection of privacy.