Thursday, September 02, 2010
	Historian Ian Dowbiggin discusses the history of the right-to-die movement and physician-assisted suicide. Dowbiggin is author of A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America. Many people associate the social acceptance of euthanasia with medical and legal developments in the 1950s and 1970s. Dowbiggin explains that the foundations for such acceptance were laid decades earlier in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He mentions which groups and ideas laid the foundations, and how their legacy informs contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide. A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2003) Euthanasia Doctor-assisted Suicide Science Technology and Culture
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