Heroic frames: Discursive constructions around the requested death movement in Australia in the late-1990s

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 654-667

  McInerney, Fran ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Death and dying; Euthanasia; Media; Requested death movement

Indexed keywords

MEDIA ROLE; MORTALITY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

ACCIDENT; AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEATH; DYING; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SUICIDE; TERMINAL DISEASE; VICTIM;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; DRAMA; EUTHANASIA; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 29144532182     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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