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| Dowbiggin believes the ] experience of euthanasia offers a “cautionary lesson” for ], showing that countries that begin to take a permissive attitude to assisted suicide keep pushing the boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/11/02/4625978-sun.html |title=Debating euthanasia - Canada - Canoe.ca |publisher=cnews.canoe.ca |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> He is opposed to the legalisation of physician-assisted suicide and lethal injection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_printable/4007/ |title=spiked review of books | Killer arguments against euthanasia |publisher=www.spiked-online.com |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> | Dowbiggin believes the ] experience of euthanasia offers a “cautionary lesson” for ], showing that countries that begin to take a permissive attitude to assisted suicide keep pushing the boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/11/02/4625978-sun.html |title=Debating euthanasia - Canada - Canoe.ca |publisher=cnews.canoe.ca |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> He is opposed to the legalisation of physician-assisted suicide and lethal injection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_printable/4007/ |title=spiked review of books | Killer arguments against euthanasia |publisher=www.spiked-online.com |accessdate=2009-10-20 }}</ref> | ||
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Dowbiggin has argued that with the overthrow of the theories of Marx and Freud, Darwinism may be next,<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> | ||
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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.
Dowbiggin has argued that with the overthrow of the theories of Marx and Freud, Darwinism may be next, 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)