A thoughtful addition to the growing debate over public and private morality. Looks at lying and deception in law, family, medicine, government.

This article highlights a contemporary privacy problem that falls outside the scope of dominant theoretical approaches. Although these approaches emphasize the connection between privacy and a protected personal (or intimate) sphere, many individuals perceive a threat to privacy in the widespread collection of information even in realms normally considered "public". In identifying and describing the problem of privacy in public, this article is preliminary work in a larger effort to map out future theoretical directions.

This article explores the problematic relationship between ethics review and interpretive research that uses qualitative methods. Many investigators feel that the structure and process of ethics review—which is based on assumptions relevant to biomedical research—penalize those pursuing interpretive research. We locate the origins of the problem in issues of epistemology and power, then provide an overview of how these issues—as well as the current social organization of ethical review—affect the review of interpretive research. Finally, we summarize several solutions that have (...) been proposed in the literature, then propose our own novel “two stage/two body” review structure and process. (shrink)