Active voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1208-1213

  Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   Muller, Martien T ^b   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Van Eijk, Jacques Th M ^a   Ribbe, Miel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUTHANASIA; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SUICIDE;

EID: 0030987509     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb03771.x     Document Type: Article

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