Consultation with another physician on euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 429-438

  Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Kostense, Piet J ^b   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assisted suicide; Consultation; Euthanasia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EUTHANASIA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NETHERLANDS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0034257037     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00476-1     Document Type: Article

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