Ian Dowbiggin
Biographic Data
| ID | 820862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Dowbiggin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowbiggin |
| SIGNATURE | DOWBIGGIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Prince Edward Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Managing Madness
Reviewed by: Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada by Erika Dyck, Alex Deighton Ian Dowbiggin Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton. Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. xiv + 321 pp. Ill. $31.95 (978–0–88755–795–8). On December 29, 1921, a crowd gathered in the city of Weyburn, in the Canadian p…
Elizabeth Lunbeck. The Americanization of Narcissism
On November 26, 2014, Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi was released on bail following a court appearance in Toronto to face five criminal charges involving sexual assault and choking. The charges came a month after he was fired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canada's public broadcaster. The CBC had dismissed Ghomeshi when, its spokespeople said, they were confronted with “‘graphic evidence’” that Ghomeshi had physically injure…
The Search for Domestic Bliss
From Sander to Schiavo
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Medical Mission to Moscow
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Making Marriage Work
Three Generations, No Imbeciles
When we think of notorious U.S. Supreme Court rulings we normally remember Dred Scott v. Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson. According to Georgia State College of Law professor Paul Lombardo, we should also recall Buck v. Bell. In that near-unanimous 1927 decision the Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional for the state of Virginia to order the sterilization of people with mental disabilities. In words whose consequences have cascaded down th…
Blood and Homeland
The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new generation of scholars, excavate the hitherto unknown eugenics movements in Central and Southeast Europe, including Austria and Germany. Eugenics and racial nationalism are topics that have constantly been…
The modern art of dying
Console and Classify
Reviewed by: Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century Ian Dowbiggin Jan Goldstein , Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001, 432 pp. When it was originally published in 1987, Jan Goldstein's Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century was [End Page 475] hailed as a triu…
Console and Classify
A Rational Coalition”
In 1940, at the second annual meeting of the Euthanasia Society of America (ESA), its first president, Charles Francis Potter (1885–1962), rose to give a speech. “Euthanasia, or merciful release from suffering,” Potter declared, “is rapidly emerging from the stage when it was considered merely the obsession of a few left-wing social reformers to the period when it is being recognized as an important social measure in the same class with birth con…
The science of human diversity
A Prey on Normal People’
Few issues in medicine and society today are more controversial than euthanasia, the term derived from the Greek word for ‘easy death’ and often called ‘mercy-killing’. Current debates raise questions about the past and what euthanasia has meant to earlier generations. The most infamous example of a state euthanasia programme occurred between 1939 and 1945 in nazi Germany when thousands of handicapped men, women and children were murdered. But li…
Delusional diagnosis? The history of paranoia as a disease concept in the modern era
Keeping America Sane
Journal Article Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940. By Ian Robert Dowbiggin. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xviii, 245 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-8014-3356-8) Get access Mari Jo Buhle Mari Jo Buhle Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 272–273…
Back to the Future
To this day one of the most curious gaps in the historiography of French psychiatry is the era between the fin-de-siècle and the 1920s, years that overlapped the life and career of Valentin Magnan (1835-1916), a pivotal figure in the historical classification of mental diseases. This paper seeks to address this shortcoming as well as contribute to the growing scholarly interest in the history of clinical psychiatry. It argues that Magnan was in m…
‘Keeping This Young Country Sane’
Approaching Hysteria
Inheriting Madness
Midnight Clerks and Daily Drudges”
Alfred Maury and the politics of the Unconscious in nineteenth-century France
As scholars have observed recently, the study of hallucinations, hypnosis, and dreaming in nineteenth-century France was often linked to divisive social, political and cultural issues. For example, during the July Monarchy (1830-1848) many secular and religious figures on the political Left celebrated these phenomena for their capacity to disclose moral strategies that would lead to the regeneration of French economic and political life. The revo…
Docile bodies
The following paper sketches a parallel between the development of professional psychiatry in nineteenth century France and the development of geography as a school subject in England in the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. In each case, the activities were developed, not in response to clients#shlearners needs, but in the interest of professional status and authority. The authors contend that until complex relations bet…
Console and Classify
A Rational Coalition”
In 1940, at the second annual meeting of the Euthanasia Society of America (ESA), its first president, Charles Francis Potter (1885–1962), rose to give a speech. “Euthanasia, or merciful release from suffering,” Potter declared, “is rapidly emerging from the stage when it was considered merely the obsession of a few left-wing social reformers to the period when it is being recognized as an important social measure in the same class with birth con…
The modern art of dying
Back to the Future
To this day one of the most curious gaps in the historiography of French psychiatry is the era between the fin-de-siècle and the 1920s, years that overlapped the life and career of Valentin Magnan (1835-1916), a pivotal figure in the historical classification of mental diseases. This paper seeks to address this shortcoming as well as contribute to the growing scholarly interest in the history of clinical psychiatry. It argues that Magnan was in m…
A Prey on Normal People’
Few issues in medicine and society today are more controversial than euthanasia, the term derived from the Greek word for ‘easy death’ and often called ‘mercy-killing’. Current debates raise questions about the past and what euthanasia has meant to earlier generations. The most infamous example of a state euthanasia programme occurred between 1939 and 1945 in nazi Germany when thousands of handicapped men, women and children were murdered. But li…
Docile bodies
The following paper sketches a parallel between the development of professional psychiatry in nineteenth century France and the development of geography as a school subject in England in the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. In each case, the activities were developed, not in response to clients#shlearners needs, but in the interest of professional status and authority. The authors contend that until complex relations bet…
Docile bodies
The following paper sketches a parallel between the development of professional psychiatry in nineteenth century France and the development of geography as a school subject in England in the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. In each case, the activities were developed, not in response to clients#shlearners needs, but in the interest of professional status and authority. The authors contend that until complex relations bet…
Alfred Maury and the politics of the Unconscious in nineteenth-century France
As scholars have observed recently, the study of hallucinations, hypnosis, and dreaming in nineteenth-century France was often linked to divisive social, political and cultural issues. For example, during the July Monarchy (1830-1848) many secular and religious figures on the political Left celebrated these phenomena for their capacity to disclose moral strategies that would lead to the regeneration of French economic and political life. The revo…
Inheriting Madness
Midnight Clerks and Daily Drudges”
‘Keeping This Young Country Sane’
Approaching Hysteria
Back to the Future
To this day one of the most curious gaps in the historiography of French psychiatry is the era between the fin-de-siècle and the 1920s, years that overlapped the life and career of Valentin Magnan (1835-1916), a pivotal figure in the historical classification of mental diseases. This paper seeks to address this shortcoming as well as contribute to the growing scholarly interest in the history of clinical psychiatry. It argues that Magnan was in m…
Keeping America Sane
Journal Article Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940. By Ian Robert Dowbiggin. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xviii, 245 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-8014-3356-8) Get access Mari Jo Buhle Mari Jo Buhle Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 272–273…
Delusional diagnosis? The history of paranoia as a disease concept in the modern era
A Prey on Normal People’
Few issues in medicine and society today are more controversial than euthanasia, the term derived from the Greek word for ‘easy death’ and often called ‘mercy-killing’. Current debates raise questions about the past and what euthanasia has meant to earlier generations. The most infamous example of a state euthanasia programme occurred between 1939 and 1945 in nazi Germany when thousands of handicapped men, women and children were murdered. But li…
A Rational Coalition”
In 1940, at the second annual meeting of the Euthanasia Society of America (ESA), its first president, Charles Francis Potter (1885–1962), rose to give a speech. “Euthanasia, or merciful release from suffering,” Potter declared, “is rapidly emerging from the stage when it was considered merely the obsession of a few left-wing social reformers to the period when it is being recognized as an important social measure in the same class with birth con…
The science of human diversity
Console and Classify
Reviewed by: Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century Ian Dowbiggin Jan Goldstein , Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001, 432 pp. When it was originally published in 1987, Jan Goldstein's Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century was [End Page 475] hailed as a triu…
Console and Classify
Blood and Homeland
The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new generation of scholars, excavate the hitherto unknown eugenics movements in Central and Southeast Europe, including Austria and Germany. Eugenics and racial nationalism are topics that have constantly been…
The modern art of dying
Three Generations, No Imbeciles
When we think of notorious U.S. Supreme Court rulings we normally remember Dred Scott v. Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson. According to Georgia State College of Law professor Paul Lombardo, we should also recall Buck v. Bell. In that near-unanimous 1927 decision the Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional for the state of Virginia to order the sterilization of people with mental disabilities. In words whose consequences have cascaded down th…
Medical Mission to Moscow
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Making Marriage Work
From Sander to Schiavo
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The Search for Domestic Bliss
Elizabeth Lunbeck. The Americanization of Narcissism
On November 26, 2014, Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi was released on bail following a court appearance in Toronto to face five criminal charges involving sexual assault and choking. The charges came a month after he was fired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canada's public broadcaster. The CBC had dismissed Ghomeshi when, its spokespeople said, they were confronted with “‘graphic evidence’” that Ghomeshi had physically injure…
Managing Madness
Reviewed by: Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada by Erika Dyck, Alex Deighton Ian Dowbiggin Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton. Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. xiv + 321 pp. Ill. $31.95 (978–0–88755–795–8). On December 29, 1921, a crowd gathered in the city of Weyburn, in the Canadian p…
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