Voluntary active euthanasia and the nurse: A comparison of Japanese and Australian nurses

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Tanida, Noritoshi ^a   Asai, Atsushi ^b   Ohnishi, Motoki ^b   Nagata, Shizuko K ^b   Fukui, Tsuguya ^b   Yamazaki, Yasuji ^c   Kuhse, Helga ^d  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active euthanasia; Japanese nurses

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 11244303575     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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