Alzheimer's Disease, Media Representations and the Politics of Euthanasia: Constructing Risk and Selling Death in an Ageing Society

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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The Alzheimerization of the Euthanasia Debate -- 2 The Incidence and Impact of Alzheimer's Disease -- 3 Media Representations, Metaphors, and the Stigmatization of Alzheimer's Disease -- 4 Curbing Demand for Acute Healthcare Services -- 5 The Euthanasia Option -- 6 Mobilizing Political Support for the Legalization of Euthanasia -- 7 Propaganda, 'Dirty Tricks' Fallacies, and Opposing Points-of-View -- 8 Selling Death -- 9 Alzheimer's Disease and Euthanasia as a Symbolic System of Control -- 10 Euthanasia Politics and Public Opinion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Alzheimer's disease, media representations, and the politics of euthanasia: constructing risk and selling death in an ageing society

Johnstone, Megan-Jane.

Johnstone, Megan-Jane.

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1. The Alzheimerization of the euthanasia debate -- 2. The incidence and impact of Alzheimer's disease -- 3. Media representations, metaphors, and the stigmatization of Alzheimer's disease -- 4. Curbing demand for acute healthcare services -- 5. The euthanasia option -- 6. Mobilizing political support for the legalization of euthanasia -- 7. Propaganda, 'dirty tricks' fallacies, and opposing points-of-view -- 8. Selling death -- 9. Alzheimer's disease and euthanasia as a symbolic system of control -- 10. Euthanasia politics and public opinion.

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