Responding to Requests for Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

Palliative Care

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 284-299

  Kenny, Nuala P ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84884449050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4377-1619-1.00021-4     Document Type: Chapter

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