Physician-assisted suicide: To decriminalize or to legalize, that is the question

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 225-251

  Stell, Lance K ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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