Voices, Differing Personal Reflections on the Roles and Responsibilities of Community/Non-Scientist/Unaffiliated Members Dahron Johnson AER 2014; Baltimore, MD
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1. Personal Reflections on the Roles and Responsibilities of
Community/Non-Scientist/Unaffiliated Members Dahron Johnson AER
2014; Baltimore, MD
2. The regs say: [were ] members whose primary concerns are in
non- scientific areas, who are not otherwise affiliated with the
institution, and who have a cultural background and sensitivity to
community attitudes . . . Some IRBs (Canada in particular) even
have boards where UA/NS (unaffiliated/non-scientists) constitute
25% of the [board], and define community members as people among
whom risks are shared. Should there be specific types of community
members present when a specific type of How diverse is your board?
Do the community members typically represent the minority as well
as the community? I read [studies] with a viewpoint that Im
representing the layperson. See if they can understand it. I was
told in one case that they were not going to ask that question
(regarding racial disparities). In another case, I was told well,
this is how we have always done things. I think thats what my role
is. Im standing in for the subject.
3. --THE COMMUNITY MEMBER ROLE: A Positive I Am! instead of an
Im not. If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything.
An Irruptionbursting inof Outside Voices to help stem the tide of
previous problems. The Heros Role: Carries responsibility to engage
with, listen to ones various communities. Establishing our Warrant:
How Can
4. Efficiency is Another Word for . . . Ethics After Babel:
Jeffrey Stout None make the temptations of moral reflection in our
age more strongly felt [than the desires and disappointments of
Babel]: the comforts of false unity and transcendence; the urge to
lose oneself in playful aestheticism or the rigor of professional
technique; the wishful thinking of utopian proposals and wistful
thoughts of days gone by. Modern technology has become a total
phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social
order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity
imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul