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Humanities research may see more rules

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Professors and students engaged in oral history research may eventually run into regulatory roadblocks similar to those their peers in psychology and the sciences face on a regular basis.

A recent report has sparked debate about whether proposals for humanities research involving interviews, surveys or public observations should be subject to external review, which is already the standard for science and social science research involving human subjects. While relatively few oral history projects are reviewed at Yale each year, Human Subjects Committee chair Susan Bouregy said, the...

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