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| A critic of ], he has asked if ] needs to be replaced with something else,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/518753631.html?dids=518753631:518753631&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+05%2C+1993&author=Ian+Dowbiggin+Special+to+The+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=After+Marx+and+Freud%2C+is+Darwin+next+to+tumble%3F&pqatl=google |title=After Marx and Freud, is Darwin next to tumble? |publisher=pqasb.pqarchiver.com |accessdate=2009-10-20 | first=Ian | last=Dowbiggin | date=1993-06-05}}</ref> and has linked Darwinism to the euthanasia movement,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csustan.edu/history/faculty/Weikart/killing.htm |title=Killing Them Kindly |publisher=www.csustan.edu |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/09/weikart_responds_to_avalos.html |title=Evolution News & Views: Weikart Responds to Avalos |publisher=www.evolutionnews.org |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> describing the movement as utilitarian, anticlerical, and pervasively Darwinian.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/108.5/br_81.html |title=Review: A Merciful End | The American Historical Review, 108.5 | The History Cooperative |publisher=www.historycooperative.org |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> | A critic of ], he has asked if ] needs to be replaced with something else,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/518753631.html?dids=518753631:518753631&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+05%2C+1993&author=Ian+Dowbiggin+Special+to+The+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=After+Marx+and+Freud%2C+is+Darwin+next+to+tumble%3F&pqatl=google |title=After Marx and Freud, is Darwin next to tumble? |publisher=pqasb.pqarchiver.com |accessdate=2009-10-20 | first=Ian | last=Dowbiggin | date=1993-06-05}}</ref> and has linked Darwinism to the euthanasia movement,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csustan.edu/history/faculty/Weikart/killing.htm |title=Killing Them Kindly |publisher=www.csustan.edu |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/09/weikart_responds_to_avalos.html |title=Evolution News & Views: Weikart Responds to Avalos |publisher=www.evolutionnews.org |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> describing the movement as utilitarian, anticlerical, and pervasively Darwinian.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/108.5/br_81.html |title=Review: A Merciful End | The American Historical Review, 108.5 | The History Cooperative |publisher=www.historycooperative.org |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> | ||
| Dowbiggin's 2003 book on euthanasia, ''A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America'' has been acclaimed as the best book on the history of the right-to-die movement in the United States. In it Dowbiggin reveals for the first time that, among other things, Margaret Sanger, the birth control advocate, was also a public proponent of legalized mercy-killing and that one of the motives behind the movement to legalize euthanasia was population control. With the likelihood that the archival records of the Euthanasia Society of America, on which Dowbiggin's book is heavily based, have been destroyed by a person or persons unknown, Dowbiggin's book will stand as the last word on the history of the right-to-die movement. | |||
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Ian Robert Dowbiggin, born 1952 (age 72–73), is an academic historian, an author and an opponent of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. He is a professor in the History department at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Ian DowbigginI am opposed to legalizing PAS because I believe that the harm outweighs the benefits of doing so from a clinical, ethical, social, and economic perspective.
Books
He is the author of Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in 19th C. France (1991), Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (1997), Suspicious Minds: The Triumph of Paranoia in Everyday Life (1999) and most recently, A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America, (2003).
Dowbiggin believes the Dutch experience of euthanasia offers a “cautionary lesson” for Canada, showing that countries that begin to take a permissive attitude to assisted suicide keep pushing the boundaries. He is opposed to the legalisation of physician-assisted suicide and lethal injection.
A critic of Charles Darwin, he has asked if Darwinism needs to be replaced with something else, and has linked Darwinism to the euthanasia movement, describing the movement as utilitarian, anticlerical, and pervasively Darwinian.
Politics
A well known political commentator in the Canadian press, Dowbiggin has often appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television both at the provincial and national level.
References
- "Debating euthanasia - Canada - Canoe.ca". cnews.canoe.ca. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- "spiked review of books". www.spiked-online.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
{{cite web}}: Text "Killer arguments against euthanasia" ignored (help) - Dowbiggin, Ian (1993-06-05). "After Marx and Freud, is Darwin next to tumble?". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- "Killing Them Kindly". www.csustan.edu. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- "Evolution News & Views: Weikart Responds to Avalos". www.evolutionnews.org. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- "Review: A Merciful End". www.historycooperative.org. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
{{cite web}}: Text "The American Historical Review, 108.5" ignored (help); Text "The History Cooperative" ignored (help)