Dutch Euthanasia Revisited

Issues in Law and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-311

  Fenigsen, Richard ^a,b  

^a JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL PATIENT; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

CAUSE OF DEATH; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SOCIAL CHANGE; WEDGE ARGUMENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0031299180     PISSN: 87568160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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