Physician-hastened death advisory guidelines for the San Francisco bay area from the Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 370-378

  Heilig, Steve ^a   Brody, Robert ^a   Marcus, Fred S ^a   Shavelson, Lonny ^a   Sussman, Patricia Carson ^a  

^a Bay Area Netwk of Ethics Committees   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COURT; EUTHANASIA; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

BAY AREA NETWORK OF ETHICS COMMITTEES; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ETHICS CONSULTATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; HOME CARE SERVICES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RECORDS; SAN FRANCISCO; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0030919211     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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