Prosecutor Vyshynskyi in defense of stalin’s totalitarian regime

Managing Disagreement: A Defense of “Regime Bias”

Stein Ringen's theory of democratic purpose cannot do the work expected of it. Ringen's own criteria oscillate between being too vague to be useful (i.e. "freedom") or, when specified more fully, conflicting, so that almost all democracies will seem to be potentially at cross-purposes with themselves rather than their purposes or sub-purposes being mutually reinforcing. This reflects a bigger a...

Medical ethics under a totalitarian regime: German dentists and the Third Reich.

After 133 days of long debates, the trial of twenty three Nazi doctors ended in Nuremberg on 21 August 1947. 1 Seven of the doctors were sentenced to death, five to life imprisonment, two to 20 years imprisonment, two to 10 years imprisonment, and seven were discharged. On the very eve of the announcements of the sentences, 10 essential principles that should in future govern every human experi...

The Prudent Prosecutor

Totalitarian Origins and Outcomes of Political Orthodoxy

DEMANDS FOR POLITICAL ORTHODOXY seem to appear, at least in the twentieth century, in thirty-year cycles. Thus, in the 1930s, we witnessed the rise of Hitlerism and Stalinism, both of which were aimed as much on purging their respective parties of differences as providing the “masses” with ideological guidance. In the 1960s, politics shifted its ground from parties to movements, and hence the d...

Screening for phenylketonuria in a totalitarian state.

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...