Palliative care on the 'slippery slope' towards euthanasia?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 387-392

  Materstvedt, Lars Johan ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Kreftforeningen   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; EUTHANASIA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL FUTILITY; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINOLOGY; WEDGE ARGUMENT;

EID: 0038013643     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216303pm796oa     Document Type: Article

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