Physician-assisted suicide in psychiatry: Developments in the Netherlands

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-188

  Legemaate, Johan ^a   Gevers, J K M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; CRIMINAL LAW; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL PATIENT; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; CRIMINAL LAW; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHIATRY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; WEDGE ARGUMENT;

EID: 0031084835     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180100007799     Document Type: Article

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