%0 Journal Article %A Martyn Hammersley %T Response to Sheehan et al’s ‘In defence of governance: ethics review and social research’ %D 2018 %R 10.1136/medethics-2017-104668 %J Journal of Medical Ethics %P medethics-2017-104668 %X This response welcomes Sheehan et al’s discussion of the criticisms that have been made of mandatory, pre-emptive ethics regulation and their outline of a philosophical rationale for it. However, it is argued that they misrepresent some of the key criticisms and fail to provide any effective response to them. %U https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/early/2018/01/27/medethics-2017-104668.full.pdf