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A dance of destitution - psychology's clash over coercion

Job centres are becoming gladiatorial arenas where unemployed people and professionals slug it out, whilst the ethical battle rages.

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Image: University of Delaware

This week new evidence emerged of how psychologists involved in Guantanamo interrogations not only helped design and implement the torture of detainees, but made torture into ‘human experimentation’ on unconsenting subjects.

I tend to think that half-drowning a man for useless information might have troubled Hippocrates when he was sketching out his oath.