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Your IRB’s work will never be static. You will need to keep abreast of the growing evidence base about research ethics in practice and you may participate in reform of the system. I hope this manual gives you a secure ethical approach with which to meet these challenges.
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Whitney, S.N. (2016). The Future. In: Balanced Ethics Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20705-6_9
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