Living under a totalitarian regime has many effects on the structure, way of thinking, and relations in a society. However, it is the impact on neonatal genetic screening that we discuss in this paper. Genetic screening functions at the interface between health services and society at large. Being involved for over a decade in setting up the Bulgarian PKU screening programme, we have had to dea...

Using an Arendtian approach, this article considers how key concepts in the texts of Mencius and Xunzi might be appropriated for 'legitimizing' totalitarian regimes. Taking unproblematized relation to a normative History Nature underlie plausibility such appropriation, it is argued that if any Confucianism would totalitarian, well Mencian instead Xunzian.

Recent thinking about migration regimes is often defined by an object-subject divide and focuses on aspects of regulation by state and non-state actor. If considered at all, migrants are mere challenges to the regime. Historiography often further reduces this approach and uses “migration regime” as a vague metaphor for state-centered sets of regulations, often only administration. In opposition...