@article {Haller:1 August 2001:1461-670X:407,
	author = "Haller B.",
	author = "Ralph S.",
	title = "Not Worth Keeping Alive? News framing of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and Great Britain",
	journal = "Journalism Studies",
	volume = "2",
	year = "1 August 2001",
	abstract = "This essay seeks to analyse and understand the news framing of a major issue for disabled people in the late twentieth century - physician-assisted suicide. We argue that news frames within the coverage of physician-assisted suicide present narratives that ignore or devalue disability issues. The US disability rights movement has created an oppositional frame to mainstream media presentations, arguing that physician-assisted suicide has been "presented" to many disabled people as a way of self-termination in accordance with a dominant cultural belief that disabled people are "not worth keeping alive". For this study, we analysed reports in two elite newspapers, the <I>New York Times</I> in the United States, and <I>The Guardian</I> in Great Britain during 1996-1998. Our analysis identifies six narrative frames in news stories about physician-assisted suicide.",
	pages = "407-421(15)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rjos/2001/00000002/00000003/art00005"
}