SCHOLAR DETAILS
Name
Ian Dowbiggin
Email
idowbiggin@upei.ca
Position
Faculty Member
Department(s)
History and Classics
Phone
902-566-0329
Building
SDU Main Building 406
Status
Current
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 Citations
Bulletin of the History of Medicine,
2018
The American Historical Review,
2015
University Press of Kansas,
2014
Journal of Policy History,
2013
Research Interests
History of medicine - especially the history of psychiatry and psychology