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Institutional review board oral history project collection, C0172, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Donated by Zachary Schrag in 2009.
Processed by Jordan Patty in 2009. EAD Markup completed by Jordan Patty and Harold Barthold in 2010.
University researchers in the United States seeking to observe, survey, or interview people are required first to complete ethical training courses and submit their proposals to an institutional review board (IRB). Under current rules, IRBs have the power to demand modifications under the threat of the denial of funding, degrees, or promotion if their recommended modifications to scholars' proposals are not followed.
Interviews conducted by Zachary Schrag for his book Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965 to the Present. Schrag interviewed key shapers of the institutional review board regime to raise important points about the effect of the IRB process on scholarship.
Organized into two series.
Series 1: Interview Transcripts, 2007-2008 Series 2: Audiovisual, 2007-2008Special Collections and Archives holds an extensive oral history collection, some of which documents university policy in the United States.
This series contains the hard copy transcripts of the interviews.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Tom L. Beauchamp, a consultant for the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1974-1978.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Bradford Gray, the Staff Sociologist for the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1974-1978.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Albert Jonsen, the Commissioner of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1974-1978.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Barbara Mishkin, Assistant Staff Director for the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1974-1978.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Gary B. Ellis, the director of the Office for Protection from Research Risks from 1993 to 2000.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Congressman Cornelius E. Gallagher. Gallagher was the representative for New Jersey's 13th congressional district from 1959 to 1973.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and John M. Kennedy, chairman of the Committee on Professional Ethics at the American Sociological Association in the 1990s.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Jonathan Knight, staff member of the American Association of University Professors from 1977 to 2008.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Herbert Phillips, IRB chairman from the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s.
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Joan P. Porter, the executive coordinator for interagency affairs in the Office for Protection from Research Risks in the 1980s and 1990s.
This series contains the audio recordings of interviews and text files of the transcripts.
Three DVDs. Two contain the audio recordings of the IRB interviews, the third contains text files of the transcripts of those interviews.