The Canadian question: What's so great about intelligence?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 307-310

  Koch, Tom ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; DOWN SYNDROME; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0030103291     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180100007088     Document Type: Article

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