Palliative sedation, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia: "Same, same but different"?

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 62-64

  Broeckaert, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BELGIUM; DEEP SEDATION; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; NETHERLANDS; NOMENCLATURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

BELGIUM; DEEP SEDATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959251872     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2011.577518     Document Type: Article

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