The limits of a priori bioethics relating to the vulnerability of participants in two research projects focussing on individuals experiencing housing precarity
Research ethic politics play a bigger part of projects when the population is said to be « vulnérable » (Mondain et Sabourin 2009) are involved. The term vulnerability is taken more often than not from biomedical research on human subjects rather than in social and human sciences created to understand the « new societal context » (Soulet 2005). The definition of vulnerability they refer to is limited and used by ethic authorities as a criterion to be part of selected group (Bracken-Roche et al. 2017). This article relates the limits established by this definition in a case study of two qualitative research projects on residential insecurity conducted on the population said « vulnerable ».