Assisted suicide and the killing of people? maybe. Physician-assisted suicide and the killing of patients? No: The rejection of shaw's new perspective on Euthanasia

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 306-309

  McLachlan, Hugh V ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PHILOSOPHY; POLICY;

ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 77955872125     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2009.033118     Document Type: Article

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