Infanticide of defective newborns: An old midwife's story

Psychological Reports

Volumn 79, Issue 3 PART II, 1996, Pages 1275-1278

  Hontela, Slavoj ^a   Reddon, John R ^a  

^a ALBERTA HOSPITAL EDMONTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROL; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ABNORMALITIES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANTICIDE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0030346449     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3f.1275     Document Type: Article

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