Physician-assisted suicide in psychiatry: Developments in the Netherlands

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1475-1480

  Schoevers, Robert A ^a   Asmus, Frank P ^b   Van Tilburg, Willem ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL PATIENT; NETHERLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST;

EID: 0031733929     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.49.11.1475     Document Type: Article

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