- Title
- Conducting suicide research in Australia in relation to the operation of Human Research Ethics Committees
- Creator
- Macgill, Jennifer
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Thesis; PhD
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/39930
- Identifier
- vital:1763
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b1527758
- Abstract
- This thesis began with a research project on suicide that was abandoned after many hurdles were encountered in terms of reaching participants and after various applications to ethics committees. The ultimate research question was then recast as ‘Do Human Research Ethics Committees influence the conduct of suicide research in Australia?’ The conceptual framework for setting up the research was derived from literature on Critical Theory, Feminism and Weberian concepts of power and rationality. Subsidiary questions were then derived from this literature and the starting exemplar case of my own research attempts. These considered whether suicide research was problematic for ethics committees, the nature of the experiences of ethics committee members in making decisions regarding suicide research and whether the influences of disciplinary background, patriarchal medical dominance and pro-positivism were evident. In addition, questions were raised about whether and how other researchers who sought approval to conduct research into suicide-related issues were appraised. [...]; Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of Ballarat
- Rights
- Copyright Jennifer Macgill
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Suicide; Australia; Research ethics committees; Australian Digital Thesis
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