
Members of the American Psychological Association voted against allowing psychologists to resume work at certain detention centers like the one in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Quick ReadMembers of the American Psychological Association voted against allowing psychologists to resume work at certain detention centers like the one in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
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Clinical Care and Complicity with TortureFebruary 2, 2018 |
In the light of US Central Intelligence Agency guidelines that limited routine care of detainees to promote torture, our Zackary Berger, Leonard Rubenstein and Matthew DeCamp call for sanctions against health professionals who cooperate
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Independent commission recommends major reforms to the APAOctober 5, 2017 |
In light of its problematic response to US torture, the APA established an independent ethics commission, members include our Leonard Rubenstein, which has issued its findings
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When Torture Becomes ScienceAugust 15, 2017 |
Was the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 “enhanced interrogation” program an instance of human experimentation?
Quick ReadRevelations about the C.I.A. practices, which were a radical departure for the United States, set off global denunciations and bitter divisions at home. They led to an eventual ban on the techniques and a prohibition by the American Psychological Association against members’ participation in national security interrogations
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Donald Trump Faces Obstacles to Resuming WaterboardingNovember 29, 2016 |
“The view of the medical profession is so clear now,” said Leonard Rubenstein of the Berman Institute for Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. “There is no ambiguity anymore about what the rules are.”
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Pentagon Curbs Use of Psychologists With Guantánamo DetaineesJanuary 4, 2016 |
The United States military has sharply curtailed the use of psychologists at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in response to strict new professional ethics rules of the American Psychological Association, Pentagon officials said
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