[Linganth] Comments needed! Proposed IRB changes

[Cynthia Dunn]

One important change is that they are proposing a set of categories that
would be entirely exempt and not requiring any type of IRB review.  This
discussion is under Section II.A.2 and starts on p. 53946.  "Explicit
exclusion of activities from the common rule."

One of the problems is that because it's the "Common Rule" large sections
of the document deal with issues involving biosamples which would
presumably only be of interest to physical anthropologists.  So you have to
sort of skim over those sections to find the social science research parts.


Cyndi Dunn
Professor of Anthropology
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls IA 50614-0513 U.S.A.

(319) 273-6251
Cyndi.Dunn at uni.edu

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Woolard, Kathryn <kwoolard at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Dear Steve -
>
> Thanks for drawing our attention to this; surely it will be very
> important. But the document is of course overwhelming, and there's no
> guidance on it posted on the AAA website ( I assume the 2011 AAA comment
> can't be taken to correspond to the document at hand now.)  Can you or your
> committee provide any sense of what sections linguistic anthropologists in
> particular should look at, or how we might be affected – positively or
> negatively?
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
> Kit
>
> Kathryn A. Woolard,  Professor
> Department of Anthropology, 0532
> UCSD
> 9500 Gilman Drive
> La Jolla, CA 92093-0532
>
> Tel. (858) 534-4639
> Fax (858) 534-5946
>
>
> From: Steven Black <stevepblack at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2015 8:31 AM
> To: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" <
> LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Subject: [Linganth] Comments needed! Proposed IRB changes
>
> Dear all,
> I am writing as chair of the American Anthropology Association’s Committee
> on Ethics and the linguistic anthropology representative on the committee
> to ask all of us to take a look at the most recent Ethics Blog post. The
> post overviews proposed changes to national IRB rules/ regulations. This
> represents an opportunity for the AAA to make an impact on regulations that
> could make research either much easier or much more difficult for
> anthropologists. Please read the blog, look at the information, and send in
> your comments. Linguistic anthropologists’ perspectives are needed! Here is
> a link to the blog:
>
> http://ethics.aaanet.org/proposed-federal-changes-to-the-common-rule/
>
> Take care,
> Steve Black
>
> Steven P. Black
> Chair of the Committee on Ethics of the American Anthropological
> Association
>
> Department of Anthropology
> Georgia State University
> P.O. Box 3998
> Atlanta, GA 30302-3998
>
> Phone (404) 413-5168
> Fax (404) 413-5159
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