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Victims in Our Own Minds? IRBs in Myth and Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Abstract

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Comment on the Presidential Address
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© 2007 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Renée Beard, Alan Czaplicki, Steve Hoffman, Susan Silbey, and Alistair Sponsel for their comments on earlier drafts of this piece.

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