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    A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine

    Ian Dowbiggin

    Traces the controversial record of mercy-killing, a source of heated debate among doctors and laypeople alike. This book examines evolving opinions about what constitutes a good death, taking into account…

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    The Search for Domestic Bliss: Marriage and Family Counseling in 20th-Century America

    Ian Dowbiggin

    Dowbiggin traces the concerted and deliberate way in which the old order of looking to family and community for guidance gave way to seeking guidance from marriage and family counseling…

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    Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France

    Ian Dowbiggin

    Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of…

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    The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

    Ian Dowbiggin

    The incidence of mental and emotional illness continues to rise; yet as Ian Dowbiggin shows, the quest for happiness continues. Dowbiggin argues that this trend will persist as long as…

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    The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

    Ian Dowbiggin

    The incidence of mental and emotional illness continues to rise; yet as Ian Dowbiggin shows, the quest for happiness continues. Dowbiggin argues that this trend will persist as long as…

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    The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

    Ian Dowbiggin

    The incidence of mental and emotional illness continues to rise; yet as Ian Dowbiggin shows, the quest for happiness continues. Dowbiggin argues that this trend will persist as long as…

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    A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America

    Ian Dowbiggin (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)

    Tells the story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change America’s attitude towards mercy killing and assisted suicide. This work reveals that euthanasia has been a…

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    Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940

    Ian Robert Dowbiggin (Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)

    What would bring a physician to conclude that sterilization is appropriate treatment for the mentally ill or handicapped? Using archival sources, the author documents the involvement of both American and…

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    The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century

    Ian R. Dowbiggin (Professor of History and Chair, Department of History, Professor of History and Chair, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island)

    Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the…

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