The acceptability among French lay persons of ending the lives of damaged newborns

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 701-708

  Teisseyre, N ^a   Duarte dos Reis, I ^a   Sorum, P C ^b   Mullet, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449129069     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2009.029686     Document Type: Article

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