The killing of severely disabled newborns: The spectre behing the legalisation of physicians-assisted suicide and euthanasia

Medicine and Law

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 791-802

  Smith, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

End of life; Ethics; Euthanasia; Infanticide; Patient autonomy; Physician assisted suicide; Quality of life; Severely disabled newborns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUTHANASIA; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; LAW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRENATAL SCREENING; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 30644468840     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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