I have a book review of a wonderful history of the euthanasia movement in the current issue of First Things. It begins, “To read Ian Dowbiggin’s A Concise History of Euthanasia is to learn that in more than a century of advocacy for euthanasia, the arguments have barely changed at all.”
You can access the rest of it here.
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