The research is based on the premise that ethics are cultural and they reflect the culture of society. As ethics are based on morals, values, norms, beliefs and way of conceptualising and judging human behaviour they are cultural. They are, in fact, fundamentals of culture and cultural difference. As the research explores the perspectives of a wide variety of people affected by the ethical review process from an anthropological perspective, it is an attempt to achieve a “view from manywheres” (Shweder, 2003)
  
 

Ethics are an extraordinary complex cultural phenomenon (Weisz, 1990, p. 1)

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.’ Given the choice between incompleteness, incoherence, and emptiness, this kind of anthropological approach to the study of cultures attempts to overcome incompleteness by staying on the move between different points of view or frames of reference. Its aim is to achieve that view from manywheres. (Shweder, 2003, p. 1)