When law and ethics collide - Why physicians participate in executions

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1221-1229

  Gawande, Atul ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANCURONIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; THIOPENTAL;

ANESTHESIST; ASPHYXIA; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LAW; LETHALITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PAIN; PARALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; PUNISHMENT; REVIEW;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CODES OF ETHICS; DEATH; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; INJECTIONS; JURISPRUDENCE; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645095911     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp068042     Document Type: Review

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