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The Risk of Over-Reliance on the Institutional Review Board: An Approved Project Is Not Always an Ethical Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2016

Melissa R. Michelson*
Affiliation:
Menlo College

Abstract

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Type
Profession Symposium: Local Control and Realities in the Relationship between Institutional Review Boards and Political Science Research
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2016 

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