TY - JOUR T1 - Reasonable disagreement and the justification of pre-emptive ethics governance in social research: a response to Hammersley JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 719 LP - 720 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2018-104975 VL - 44 IS - 10 AU - Mark Sheehan AU - Michael Dunn AU - Kate Sahan Y1 - 2018/10/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/44/10/719.abstract N2 - In this response, we first tackle what we take to be the core disagreement between ourselves and Hammersley, namely the justification for our model of social research ethics governance. We then consider what follows from our defence of governance for ethics review and show how these claims attend to the specific concerns outlined by Hammersley. ER -