Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Key Ideas

• Qualitative researchers' interactions with individuals and communities provide fertile ground for the emergence of ethical dilemmas.
• Ethical guidelines and principles bind all researchers to standards of ethical practice as exemplified in government regulations and professional associations' codes of ethics. Qualitative researchers contribute additional layers of ethical concerns emanating from the “researcher as instrument” concept that is part of qualitative inquiry.
• The axiological branch of philosophy is one that explores the nature of ethics and provides a way to examine ethical issues in qualitative research.
• The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1979) issued the ...