Emerging Ethical Issues in Social Science and Cross- Cultural Research
5/6th May 2005
Gallery 1, 3rd Floor, Bramber House, Arts Road, University of Sussex
Programme
Thursday 5th May
12.30 Lunch in Gallery 2, Bramber House
2-4pm The Biomedical/Social Science Interface: Problems with Bioethics?
Charles Bosk University of Pennsylvania
"If we must have prospective research review, can we make it meaningful? A complaint, a remedy, and a research agenda"
Priscilla Alderson SSRU University of London
"The biomedical-social science interface: problems with bioethics and contributions from social science"
5-7pm Formal Governance and Social Science Research
Iain Lang Peninsula Medical School/ University of Cambridge
"Ethical governance as resource and as obstacle: findings from a consultation with qualitative researchers"
Jan Pahl University of Kent
"Research governance in social science and social care research"
Friday 6th May
9am-11 am International and Cross-Cultural Research I : Ethical Dilemmas
Nicoli Natrass University of CapeTown
"'Us doctors REALLY help people - you social scientists just study them': Tensions over the value and purpose of AIDS-related research in South Africa"
Sam McConkey MRC Laboratories, the Gambia/Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
"Biomedical research in and cross-cultural sensitivities in the Gambia"
11.30am- 1.30pm International and Cross-Cultural Research II : Cultural Sensitivities
Maya Unnithan University of Sussex
'Anthropology and Bioethics: linking global values with local practices'
Leslie Swartz University of Stellenbosch
"Participation, expertise and science"
Melissa Leach Institute of Development Studies
"Fluid anxieties: technoscience and the economy of blood in The Gambia"
(Co-authors: Melissa Leach, James Fairhead, Mary Small, Jackie Cassell)
1.30pm Lunch
2-4pm Agenda-setting/ future issues roundtable
NOTE: Papers and discussion comments are currently in the process of being loaded onto the website