Biography
Professor
BA (MacMaster); MA (Toronto); PhD (Rochester)
Ian Dowbiggin teaches Modern European History, the History of Genocide, the History of Medicine, and the History of the Environmentalist Movement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
His most recent book is The Search for Domestic Bliss: Marriage and Family Counselling in Modern America. (University Press of Kansas, 2015) Dowbiggin's A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America (Oxford University Press) received honourable mention for the Canadian Historical Association's Wallace Ferguson Prize.
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
Current Scholars in History
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