A Guide to the Institutional review board oral history project collection, 2007-2008
A Collection in
Special Collections and Archives
Accession Number COLLECTION NUMBER
George Mason University Libraries
2006 By George Mason University Libraries. All rights reserved.
Processed by: Special Collections and Archives Staff
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on parts of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Institutional review board oral history project collection, C0172, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Zachary Schrag in 2009.
Processing Information
Processed by Jordan Patty in 2009. EAD Markup completed by Jordan Patty and Harold Barthold in 2010.
Historical Information
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Arrangement
Organized into two series.
Series 1: Interview Transcripts, 2007-2008 Series 2: Audiovisual, 2007-2008Related Material
Special Collections and Archives holds an extensive oral history collection, some of which documents university policy in the United States.
Index Terms
- Institutional review boards (Medicine).
- Social sciences--Research--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Sound recordings.
Subjects:
Document Types:
Contents List
This series contains the hard copy transcripts of the interviews.
- Box: 2 Folder: 1
Tom L. Beauchamp Interview Transcript,2007
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.
- Box: 2 Folder: 2
Bradford Gray Interview Transcript,2007
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.
- Box: 2 Folder: 3
Albert Jonsen Interview Transcript,2007
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.
- Box: 2 Folder: 4
Barbara Mishkin Interview Transcript,2007
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.
- Box: 2 Folder: 5
Gary B. Ellis Interview Transcript,2008
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.
- Box: 2 Folder: 6
Cornelius E. Gallagher Interview Transcript,2008
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.
- Box: 2 Folder: 7
John M. Kennedy Interview Transcript,2008
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.
- Box: 2 Folder: 8
Jonathan Knight Interview Transcript,2008
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Jonathan Knight, staff member of the American Association of University Professors from 1977 to 2008.
- Box: 2 Folder: 9
Herbert Phillips Interview Transcript,2007
Transcript of IRB interview between Zachary Schrag and Herbert Phillips, IRB chairman from the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s.
- Box: 2 Folder: 10
Joan P. Porter Interview Transcript,2007
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.
- Box: 1
Audio recordings and text files of IRB interviews,2007-2008
Three DVDs. Two contain the audio recordings of the IRB interviews, the third contains text files of the transcripts of those interviews.