Media Coverage of Medical Decision Making at the End of Life: A Belgian Case Study.
This article presents a content analysis of Belgian media coverage of end-of-life decision making. The authors examine a selection of press articles and the differences among media genres in covering the issue. In general terms, they found an overreporting of euthanasia; a focus on dying processes r...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 125 - 136 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=91825063&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 91825063 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07481187 DEA jtl: Death Studies issn: 07481187 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2014 vid: 38 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 91825063 10.1080/07481187.2012.738766 ppf: 125 ppct: 11 formats: tig: atl: Media Coverage of Medical Decision Making at the End of Life: A Belgian Case Study. aug: au: Van Brussel, Leen Van Landeghem†, Paul Cohen, Joachim affil: Centre for Studies on Media and Culture, Vrije University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium End-of-Life Care Research Group, Ghent University, Vrije University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium su: Belgium Mass media criticism Content analysis Terminally ill Quantitative research Chi-squared test Probability theory Statistics Decision making in clinical medicine Data analysis Data analysis software Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Mass media criticism Content analysis Terminally ill Quantitative research Belgium Chi-squared test Probability theory Statistics Decision making in clinical medicine Data analysis Data analysis software Descriptive statistics ab: This article presents a content analysis of Belgian media coverage of end-of-life decision making. The authors examine a selection of press articles and the differences among media genres in covering the issue. In general terms, they found an overreporting of euthanasia; a focus on dying processes resulting from cancer and Alzheimer's disease; and an attention to political discussions and political voices, which outnumber patient voices. In genre-specific terms, unlike mainstream media, niche media reported less mediagenic aspects of the end of life. Finally, although popular mainstream media focus on personal aspects of the end-of-life, elite mainstream media privilege political aspects. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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