Moral panic, phrase used in sociology to describe an artificially created panic or scare. Researchers, often influenced by critical conflict-oriented Marxist themes, have demonstrated that moral entrepreneurs have demonized “dangerous groups” to serve
The issue of medicine's control over death has been a public concern for many decades and has occasionally risen to the level of a moral panic (Hillyard & Dombrink, 2002). The EOLOA, however, became law at a pivotal moment: attitudes about aid in dying (AID) had been growing more ...