Physician-assisted death: Dying with dignity?

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 637-643

  Reagan, Peter ^c   Hurst, Rachel ^c   Cook, Lisa ^c   Zylicz, Zbigniew ^a   Otlowski, Margaret ^b   Veldink, Jan H ^c   Van Den Berg, Leonard H ^c   Wokke, John H J ^c  

^a Hospice Rozenheuvel   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSULTATION; DEATH; DISABILITY; DYING; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141515309     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(03)00536-2     Document Type: Note

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