ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the genesis of the concept of research ethics and trace the discourses that have shaped practice relating to enquiry and research. Ethics lays the foundation for principles that force people to be good; it clarifies concepts, secures judgements, and provides firm guardrails along the slippery slopes of factical life. Practitioners in the human service professions are familiar with the ethics of the everyday. The chapter focuses on the Nazi regime in the genesis of research ethics' regulation reinforces two particular explanations that have become so fossilized that they are stifling critical debate about ethical responsibility in research. It also explores three detective genres in Moring, I. deconstruction of the metaphor: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the character of the criminal psychologist or profiler, and Daniel Quinn from Paul Auster's novel City of Glass. In the methodological literature, the researcher as detective has been a popular and powerful metaphor.
