The development of bioethics and the issue of euthanasia: Regulating, de-regulating or re-regulating?

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-134

  Lewins, Frank ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; AUSTRALIA; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; SOCIAL CONTROL; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOETHICS; ETHICS COMMITTEES; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 4944250610     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/144078339803400202     Document Type: Article

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