‘She killed not from hate, but from love’: motherhood, melodrama and mercy killing in the case of May Brownhill
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DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2017.1332545
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines press portrayals of and public reactions to a ‘mercy killing’ in 1930s England. May Brownhill, sixty-two, killed her ‘invalid’ adult son by giving him an overdose of aspirin and poisoning him… read more here.
Keywords: hate love; killed hate; case; mercy killing ... See more keywords
Killing in the name of: A merciful death?
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DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13017
Abstract: "Mercy" holds a well-established place in the discourse on assisted death (AD), with mercy rhetoric used by both proponents and opponents of AD alike. In this paper, I interrogate the relationship between mercy, mercy killing… read more here.
Keywords: mercy; mercy killing; name merciful; killing name ... See more keywords