Beneficent voluntary active euthanasia: A challenge to professionals caring for terminally ill patients

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 294-306

  Begley, Ann Marie ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death; Dying; Euthanasia; Mercy killing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BENEFICENCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERMINAL CARE; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENEFICENCE; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RIGHT TO DIE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE; TRUST; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0032112567     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/096973398667057753     Document Type: Article

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