Euthanasia in the Netherlands: 25 years of experience

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Dupuis, Heleen M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Debate on euthanasia; Experience with euthanasia in the Netherlands; Legal euthanasia; Moral and legal aspects

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORALITY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SOCIAL ASPECT; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037740013     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00090-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

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2. Beauchamp TL, Childress JF. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.