Historian, Ian Dowbiggin exposes the many disturbing themes that link present and past in the concept of the right to die. This provocative historical perspective will be indispensible as patients, families, governments, and the medical community debate when it is time to let go of life.
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Essential reading that recounts with verve and clarity the story of euthanasia from the ancient Greeks to postmodern Americans. Understanding the historical record may lead contemporary advocates for euthanasia and assisted suicide to pause and reconsider their prescriptions today. Certainly those who combat these practices cannot help but be bolstered by Dowbiggin’s fine piece of work. (McHugh, Paul )
Anyone desiring a more deeply informed sense of the historical background to our current debates over end-of-life issues will appreciate this thoughtful and dispassionate introduction by Ian Dowbiggin, one of our most accomplished scholars of the subject. They will learn that the burning controversies of the moment, while unprecedented in many respects, are not entirely new, precisely because they emerge out of the most fundamental problems of human existence. (McClay, Wilfred M. )
Dowbiggin has produced a well-written text of considerable breadth . . . . Those generally interested in the topic will find all they need to know about the whys and hows of euthanasia belief and advocacy in this short and easy-to-digest book. Dowbiggin has fulfilled the promise of his title and produced the best available concise history of euthanasia. (First Things )
A useful, clearly written primer on an issue of increasing importance. (American Historical Review )
It is certainly accessible and can be commended as a very general orientation to the history of euthanasia; one becomes familiar with the broad contours of its history. (Ethics and Medicine, Summer 2008 )
Anyone desiring a more deeply informed sense of the historical background to our current debates over end-of-life issues will appreciate this thoughtful and dispassionate introduction by Ian Dowbiggin, one of our most accomplished scholars of the subject. They will learn that the burning controversies of the moment, while unprecedented in many respects, are not entirely new, precisely because they emerge out of the most fundamental problems of human existence. (McClay, Wilfred M. )
Dowbiggin has produced a well-written text of considerable breadth . . . . Those generally interested in the topic will find all they need to know about the whys and hows of euthanasia belief and advocacy in this short and easy-to-digest book. Dowbiggin has fulfilled the promise of his title and produced the best available concise history of euthanasia. (First Things )
A useful, clearly written primer on an issue of increasing importance. (American Historical Review )
It is certainly accessible and can be commended as a very general orientation to the history of euthanasia; one becomes familiar with the broad contours of its history. (Ethics and Medicine, Summer 2008 )
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Ian Dowbiggin is professor of history at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada.
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Influences on Euthanasia,
This review is from: A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (Critical Issues in World and International History) (Paperback)
Dowbiggin, a history professor at the Univ. of Prince Edward Island, has written an excellent introduction to the subject here. It is written in a way that the average educated person would understand, but it contains powerful ideas. He shows the way that ideas from outside medicine have helped shape the euthanasia debate. It is brief, but enlightening. Readers who want more depth will find it in his earlier book, _Merciful End_ about the American euthanasia movement.
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Excellemt Guide for Common People About Euthanasia,
By Lovely Cactus (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God and Medicine (Critical Issues in World and International History) (Hardcover)
This book makes people think about their life and death. It also contains concrete and easy writings on the history on this topic. Thtough this book, I came to know well about euthanasia, which has been very controversial issue and will be the same in our society. I strongly recommend this title to all readers!
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