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| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester, University of Toronto, MacMaster University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | University of Prince Edward Island |
Ian Robert Dowbiggin, born in Montreal in 1952, is an internationally renowned scholar on the topics of eugenics, euthanasia, and mental health care. He is a professor in the History department at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Dowbiggin has written extensively on the history of the euthanasia movement, including A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America (2003) and A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (2005). His most recent book is "The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow and Mass Society," which Cambridge University Press named as its book of the month for August, 2011. He has also been a recipient of numerous Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada major research grants.
His research on the history of euthanasia was based on privileged access to the archives of Compassion and Choices, then named the Euthanasia Society of America. Since then these archives have mysteriously disappeared. Whether they have been willfully destroyed or otherwise, due to the scandalous revelations about the right-to-die movement, the fate of these records makes his work on the history of euthanasia the most authoritative for the foreseeable future.
In 2011 Dowbiggin was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada.
Partial bibliography
- A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (2005)
- A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America (2003)
- Suspicious Minds: The Triumph of Paranoia in Everyday Life (1999)
- Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (1997)
- Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in 19th Century France (1991)