Profile

Ian R Dowbiggin
Name:
Ian R Dowbiggin
Email:
idowbiggin@upei.ca
Position:
Professor
Department:
History and Classics
Phone:
902-566-0329
Building:
SDU Main Building 406
Island Scholar:
Island Scholar 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.

Research Interests
  • History of medicine - especially the history of psychiatry and psychology

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