Physician-Assisted Suicide – Michigan's Temporary Solution

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 21, 1993, Pages 1573-1576

  Annas, George J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUTHANASIA; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MICHIGAN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027924845     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199305273282121     Document Type: Editorial

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