Dr Kevin Yuill

Kevin is senior lecturer in History and American Studies at Sunderland University. He is now preparing a book outlining a humanist, libertarian case against assisted suicide. Previously, he has published articles in Spiked, The Spectator, and The Tablet and other journals on assisted suicide as well as articles on the rise of therapeutic methods of governing during the Nixon administration, the sociology of Robert Ezra Park, and the origins of country music.

Related Sessions

Saturday 31 October 2009, 4.15pm Student Union
Revolutions Balloon Debate

Sunday 1 November 2009, 12.30pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Should physician-assisted dying be legalised?


Publications

Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).


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