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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, Quebec, is an academic historian, and author of books on the history of euthanasia, eugenics, and mental health care. He is a professor in the History department at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Euthanasia
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 research was based on privileged access to the archives of Compassion and Choices, once called the Euthanasia Society of America. These records have mysteriously disappeared. Until they are recovered, his books remain the authoritative source on the history of the right-to-die movement.
He is also the author of "The Quest for Mental Health: A ale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society" (2011). Cambridge University Press made it their book of the month for August, 2011.
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)