Assisted dying: Reflections on the need for law reform

Assisted Dying: Reflections on the Need for Law Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-213

  McLean, Sheila ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Law Ethics in Medicine   (United Kingdom)

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