What is good death: Bridging the gap between research and intervention

Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 127-135

  Chan, Wallace Chi Ho ^a   Tse, Heung Sang ^b   Chan, Timothy Hang Yee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b RUTTONJEE HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

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