Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences pdf

[...]... social sciences or the humanities 8 Why does research need to be regulated? The nature and varieties of research and their impact on the scope of research ethics Before turning to some historical examples of research abuses, it is worth examining the nature of research, and particularly research in exercise, health and sports sciences As in other areas of scientific inquiry, there has been an ever-increasing... predominate in experiments in natural scientific research in exercise and sports, and this supports the view held by Rifkin (1988), Scocozza (1989) and Evans and Evans (1995), who similarly contend that the predominant ethics within the health sector are utilitarian The quest for knowledge about the human body and mind has further resulted in researched populations being increasingly subjected to invasive, intrusive,... performativity and productivity, however, is a variety of attitudes that may undermine the character and conduct of research and researchers In this book we try to lay out some of the chief failings of researchers in their pursuit of the truth in exercise, health and sports sciences We have aimed the text at a variety of audiences: tutors in research ethics and research methods more broadly; active researchers... is much more deeply concentrated in the areas of health and medicine This bias has benefits and burdens On the one hand, many researchers in exercise and sports sciences have always shared strong methodological and ideological interests with biomedical scientists Why should they not benefit from the fascinating and rigorous debates in clinical and medical research ethics? Of course, our earlier recognition... whistleblowing and the potential sanctions against research fraudsters pointing out that their vice is one of injustice: attempting to gain benefits that they are not properly entitled to That we have written an entire chapter on ethical issues in qualitative research merits some justification In our attempt to survey the spectrum of disciplines that comprise research in exercise, health and sports sciences, ... students’ initiation into research We prefer to adopt the following strategy: by simply laying before the reader a brief and selective history of abuses in research, the reader will take to be self-evident the case for a compulsory education in research ethics for all researchers in the fields of exercise, health and sports, regardless of whether their disciplinary home is in the natural sciences, ... irritating yet inescapable bureaucratic requirements Part of the work of Ethics Committees in higher education, then, has to be educational – not only in terms of monitoring and improving research proposals, but also in terms of prescribing and monitoring the provision of research ethics education amongst research active staff and amongst undergraduate and postgraduate student populations As well as serving... participant in, 1 the research And this brings with it new and interesting ethical issues One of these issues, which we consider important to raise at the beginning of this book, lies in the relationship between research and its funding While it will always be the case, right across the spectrum of scientific study in exercise, health and sports, that some topics are ‘hot’ or ‘sexy’ (or just plain old-fashioned),... to challenge researchers, students and teachers in these fields, irrespective of their disciplinary research traditions, to take research ethics rather more seriously Our aim is that it may help to bring about a scenario where research ethics becomes a valued component in research, research methods courses and in the continuing professional development of supervisors and reviewers of research as well... the continuum between overt and covert research and also consider – in contrast to the dominant norm of biomedical research – the circumstances in which research without the informed consent of the researched may be deemed justifiable and even desirable when other practices such as debriefing and post hoc consent are put in place In Chapter 8 we deal with the idea of vulnerable populations in research, . Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences Does good research demand good ethics? Does an emphasis on productivity undermine the moral integrity of research? Research Ethics in Exercise,. Cataloging -in- Publication Data McNamee, M. J. (Mike J.) Research ethics in exercise, health and sports sciences / Mike McNamee, Steve Olivier and Paul Wainwright. p. cm. – (Ethics and sports) Includes. in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge. Placing the issues in historical context, and using informative case