This has led to a bias in the total body of social knowledge and has led to the production of knowledge which can and often has perpetuated disadvantage. It is therefore necessary to ensure that when knowledge is being produced about one of these groups, care is taken to account for and correct these biases and disadvantages so they are not perpetuated.
University presses are brokers of communications.
This places them in a position of responsibility that is not to be taken lightly. In the first instance, we would expect authors to abide by the ethical principles developed by scholars and adopted by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council for research involving human beings. These provide one generally appropriate set of criteria for the conduct of research. These criteria should be developed and strengthened as circumstances warrant. Further, in the communication of knowledge through any of the media, we have a responsibility to ensure that the knowledge is presented in such a way that it does not perpetuate the social construction of the biased images and the disadvantages.