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'''Ian Robert Dowbiggin''', born {{birth year and age |1952}}, is an academic historian, an author and an opponent of [[euthanasia]]. |
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Revision as of 03:51, 20 October 2009
Ian Robert Dowbiggin, born 1952 (age 71–72), is an academic historian, an author and an opponent of euthanasia.
I am opposed to legalizing PAS [physician-assisted suicide] because I believe that the harm outweighs the benefits of doing so from a clinical, ethical, social, and economic perspective.
Ian Dowbiggin, email to Euthanasia ProCon.org, January 5, 2007
Books
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).
Euthanasia
Dowbiggin believes the Dutch experience of euthanasia offers a “cautionary lesson” for Canada, showing that countries that begin to take a permissive attitude to assisted suicide keep pushing the boundaries (the slippery slope argument).[1] He is opposed to legalisation of any form of euthanasia.[2]
He has given speeches at Canadian pro-life movement conferences[3][4] and gave a speech at the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition symposium.[5]
A critic of Charles Darwin, he has asked if Darwinism needs to be replaced with something else,[6] and has linked Darwinism to the euthanasia movement,[7][8] describing the movement as utilitarian, anticlerical, and pervasively Darwinian.[9]
Politics
A well known political commentator in the Canadian press, Dowbiggin is seen as a "conservative scholar" and potential future conservative leader.[10]
References
- ^ "Debating euthanasia - Canada - Canoe.ca". cnews.canoe.ca. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "spiked review of books". www.spiked-online.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
{{cite web}}: Text "Killer arguments against euthanasia" ignored (help) - ^ "National Pro-Life Conference in Montreal A Rousing Success Despite Setbacks". www.lifesitenews.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Canadian National pro-Life Conference in Montreal". www.lifesitenews.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Prof Links Euthanasia, Eugenics, Sex Education, Population Control, Gay Rights and Abortion Movements". www.lifesitenews.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "After Marx and Freud, is Darwin next to tumble?". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Killing Them Kindly". www.csustan.edu. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Evolution News & Views: Weikart Responds to Avalos". www.evolutionnews.org. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Review: A Merciful End". www.historycooperative.org. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
{{cite web}}: Text "The American Historical Review, 108.5" ignored (help); Text "The History Cooperative" ignored (help) - ^ "ESR". www.enterstageright.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
{{cite web}}: Text "July 14, 2003" ignored (help); Text "Preparing tomorrow's conservative leaders" ignored (help)