PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Martyn Hammersley
TI  - Response to Sheehan <em>et al’</em>s ‘<em>In defence of governance: ethics review and social research’</em>
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2017-104668
DP  - 2018 Oct 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 717--718
VI  - 44
IP  - 10
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/44/10/717.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/44/10/717.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2018 Oct 01; 44
AB  - 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.