Building on critical readings of the rationalities behind ethical committees and their guidelines, this article analyzes how their positivist, biomedical conception of the research process can have a negative impact on research participants who might perceive their voices erased by these institutional practices. Using examples from my recent research with gay men living with HIV in England and Italy, I show how research participants have contested the General Data Protection Regulation guidelines I was following in relation to the use of pseudonyms and the depersonalization of data and the sharing of interview transcripts. Questioning the fixity of the position of the researcher and the research participants assumed in ethical guidelines, the article explores the impact of the encounter with research participants on the researcher’s life course well beyond data collection and analysis, emphasizing the need for a different care ethics.

基于对伦理委员会及其指导方针背后的合理性的批判性解读，本文分析了他们对研究过程的实证主义、生物医学概念如何对研究参与者产生负面影响，他们可能认为自己的声音被这些制度实践抹去了。使用我最近在英国和意大利对感染艾滋病毒的男同性恋者进行的研究中的例子，我展示了研究参与者如何对我遵循的通用数据保护条例指南提出质疑，这些指导方针与使用假名、数据去个性化和访谈共享有关成绩单。质疑研究人员和研究参与者在道德准则中所假定的立场的固定性，