Kenneth G. VIERS

DISCOURSES of ASSISTED DYING

Newspaper Coverage of High-Profile Assisted Dying Cases by the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assisted dying has gained public salience in Canada through mass media reports of a number of high-profile cases: Nancy B., Sue Rodriguez, Robert Latimer, Dr. Nancy Morrison, Dr. Maurice Genereux and Evelyn Martens (among others). Primary focus in this study is given to the Rodriguez and Martens cases, secondary attention to the others. The history of these cases, 1991-2004, as presented through news articles, letters, and opinion pieces in two Canadian daily newspapers, the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe & Mail , is analyzed using an epistemological, rather than ontological, conceptualization of frame analysis. Qualitative analysis, supported by quantitative tabulations, of discursive elements are conducted to assess changes in the over-all interpretive frame of assisted dying in the two papers. A mellowing of the rhetoric and a movement towards the middle in attitude towards assisted dying is found, as well as a general sense that some form of assisted dying is both neededand desired in Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9783838383545
• ISBN-10: 3838383540
• Artikelnr.: 30977582

Autorenporträt

Dip.Tech., M.Div., B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Cand. ABD, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CAN. CURRENT WORK: A new theoretical and epistemological oriented ethnography of the people most closely involved with the assisted dying debate in Canada,exploring unrealized and unexplored common moral grounds between opposing sides.