Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die

Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-350

  Battin, Margaret Pabst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

America; Death; End of life issues; Euthanasia; Genetic prognostication; Netherlands; Nutech; Physician assisted suicide; Suicide; Suicide prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922407311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140279.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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