Ethical questions and their implication for QOL studies

Abstract

In 1983, Culyer³ pointed out that ‘Values impinge in two...ways upon the health indicator’s research programme. The first...is that the socio-economic environment... affects not only the way in which policy concerns emerge and are dealt with but also affects researchers themselves: often affecting subconsciously the way in which research questions are put, whether or not particular questions get put at all, and always requiring a sceptical attitude on the part of the researcher as to whether he or she may not be infiltrating values into an apparently “objective” or “scientific” research task’.