Passive and active euthanasia: What is the difference?

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-180

  Gesang, Bernward ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action and omission; Active and passive euthanasia; Ethics; Theory of action

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOMENCLATURE; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA;

ETHICS, CLINICAL; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 46149085648     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-007-9087-x     Document Type: Article

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