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- Title
Worte und ihr Eigensinn. Begriffshistorische Anmerkungen zu Benennungen, Bedeutungen und Bewertungen im Sterbehilfe-Diskurs des 20. Jahrhunderts.
- Authors
Noack, Thorsten
- Abstract
The text analyzes the conceptual history of euthanasia in the popular and scientific discourse. It focus on two short periods of changes, before the outbreak of World War I and during the early 1970s, when new terms were created and new meanings became accepted. These upheavals can be understood as reactions to changing views and needs. And vice versa new words and meanings, modify the perception and the interpretation of the signified. The main focus of the text is the analysis of these interactions with their specific dynamics on a field which is narrowly connected with individual fears.
- Subjects
EUTHANASIA; ASSISTED suicide; VOCABULARY; SEMANTICS; NEW words; RIGHT to die; HISTORY of medical ethics; EUTHANASIA &; ethics; HISTORY
- Publication
Historical Social Research, 2009, Vol 34, Issue 4, p97
- ISSN
0172-6404
- Publication type
Article