| Titre : | All in the family : Media presentations of family assisted suicide in Britain. (2006) |
| Auteurs : | BIRENBAUM-CARMELI (Daphna) : ISR. Department of Nursing. University of Haifa. Haifa. ; BANERJEE (Albert) : CAN. Department of Sociology York University Toronto. Ontario. ; TAYLOR (Steve) : GBR. Bios. London School of Economics. Houghton Street. London. |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 63, n° 8, 2006) |
| Pagination : | 2153-2164 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Famille ; Média ; Europe sociale ; Euthanasie ; Ethique ; Grande Bretagne ; Royaume Uni ; Europe ; Représentation sociale ; Relation familiale ; Homme ; Relation sociale |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS fZw60R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the press coverage of family assisted suicide in Britain during the mid to late 1990s. The newspaper articles we examine focus on court cases in which a family member had been charged with assisting a terminally ill relative to put an end to their lives. The paper aims to typify basic characteristics of the coverage and to explore their potential political implications. The observations reveal a consistently supportive stance towards family assisted suicide that is produced by depictions of dying persons and perpetrators as autonomous and conscientious individuals ; by idyllic portrayals of family relations ; and by praising judges for their lenient verdicts. Presentations of the law as a dated State system, as well as the marginalization of opposing voices, further enhanced the supportive message. We suggest that the commending of actors'self-reliance and the call for decreased State interference in personal affairs aligns with the neo-liberal spirit that has come into prominence in Britain since the 1980s. Within this context, we raise some questions regarding the broader political significance of such media representations. |
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