Biography
Professor
BA (MacMaster); MA (Toronto); PhD (Rochester)
Ian Dowbiggin teaches medieval and modern European history, as well as 20th c. world history and the history of science and medicine.
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).
Recent Publications
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[Review of the book Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada by Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton]
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2018
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[Review of the book The Americanization of narcissism, by Elizabeth Lunbeck]
- The American Historical Review, 2015
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Search for domestic bliss
- University Press of Kansas, 2014
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From Sander to Schiavo
- Journal of Policy History, 2013
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The Art of Medicine
- Queen's Quarterly, 2013
Research Classification
- no classification
Research Interests
- History of medicine - especially the history of psychiatry and psychology
Current Scholars in History
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