Ongoing processes of managing consent: the empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research
Abstract
Using video to facilitate data collection has become increasingly common in health research. Using video in research, however, does raise additional ethical concerns. In this paper we utilise family therapy data to provide empirical evidence of how recording equipment is treated. We show that families made a distinction between what was observed through the video by the reflecting team and what was being recorded onto videotape. We show that all parties actively negotiated what should and should not go ‘on the record’ with particular attention to sensitive topics and the responsibility of the therapist. Our findings have important implications for both clinical professionals and researchers using video data. We maintain that informed consent should be an ongoing process and with this in mind we present some arguments pertaining to the current debates in this field of health care practice.Citation
O'Reilly, M., Parker, N., & Hutchby, I. (2011). Ongoing processes of managing consent: The empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research. Clinical Ethics, 6(4), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1258/ce.2011.011040Publisher
SAGE PublicationsJournal
Clinical EthicsAdditional Links
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1258/ce.2011.011040Type
ArticleLanguage
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O'Reilly, M., Parker, N., & Hutchby, I. (2011). Ongoing processes of managing consent: The empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research. Clinical Ethics, 6(4), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1258/ce.2011.011040. Copyright © 2011 SAGE. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.ISSN
1477-7509EISSN
1758-101Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1258/ce.2011.011040