Assisted suicide: Implications for nurses and nursing

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 209-214

  Daly, Barbara J ^a   Berry, Devon ^a   Fitzpatrick, Joyce J ^a   Drew, Barbara ^a   Montgomery, Kathleen ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BENEFICENCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; MORALITY; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION; BENEFICENCE; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; HUMANS; MORALS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES; NURSING; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONS; SOCIAL VALUES; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WEDGE ARGUMENT;

EID: 0031231281     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-6554(97)90067-1     Document Type: Article

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