Disability terminology in the media: A comparison of newspaper reports in Canada and Israel

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1395-1405

  Auslander, Gail K ^a   Gold, Nora ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Disability; Israel; Language; Media; Newspapers

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; ISRAEL; MASS MEDIUM; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT RIGHT; PUBLICATION; STEREOTYPY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; DISABLED PERSONS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; NEWSPAPERS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032944206     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00442-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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