TY - JOUR T1 - Response to Sheehan <em>et al’</em>s ‘<em>In defence of governance: ethics review and social research’</em> JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics DO - 10.1136/medethics-2017-104668 SP - medethics-2017-104668 AU - Martyn Hammersley Y1 - 2018/01/27 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2018/01/27/medethics-2017-104668.abstract N2 - 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. ER -