Ethics review boards?

[asterroc]

Anybody here had to get past an institutional ethics review board for an experiment? I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy short story that involves human subject research and I'd like to see some documents people have to produce to get past ethics review boards. It doesn't have to be humans, experimenting on mice is fine too. I'm looking for things like forms that you fill out for the board, forms that you create for the subjects to give informed consent, and justification papers that you submit to accompany the paperwork. It doesn't have to have been successful.

If you're willing to show me such things but don't want it public, you can email me at zandperl-AT-gmail-DOT-com.

Thanks!

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

You'll see when it's done. ;) The format of the story is going to be a scientific paper written by a researcher either as a peer-reviewed literature review that suggests a course for future research, or as an application to an institutional review board for human-subject research. I think part of the enjoyment of reading it will be teasing out the details of that information from the scientific lingo of the "paper," so I don't want to spoil that.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I like experimental fiction. I once read a short story in the form of a to-do list in McSweeney's that was really neat.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I think what I like writing is character development, especially how they react to unusual situations and seeing what goes on inside their heads. This most easily lends itself to first person, but when I was younger I tended to do more third person (perhaps b/c it was easier to describe the situation than the person, but I am not sure). In this case I am not directly describing the main character nor what goes on in his/her mind (the individual is a first initial and last name in my head, as are many scientific papers), but through the scientific words of the character we see who the person really is, as well as a different viewpoint of how the entire world would react to a major sci-fi/fantasy event. Usually when we see how the "world" reacts, we see an Everyman-turned-hero, and the only question is whether the heroism happens on a small scale affecting only the hero's own local world (for example, the main character in War of the Worlds) or on a large scale affecting the entire world (for example, Lessa in The Dragonriders of Pern). In choosing a scientist, I guess I'm trying to show that life goes on for everyone, and nearly everyone deals with the event within the scope of what they normally do.