Protecting the innocents from physician-assisted suicide: Disability discrimination and the duty to protect otherwise vulnerable groups

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 133-148

  Silvers, Anita ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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11. Anita Silvers, "Protecting the Innocents: People With Disabilities and Physician-Assisted Dying, "The Western Journal of Medicine, June 1997.
12. Richard Carelli, "Top Court Rejects Suit Challenging Assisted Suicide, "San Francisco Examiner, Tuesday, October 14, 1997, p. A-ll
13. David Savage, "High Court Lets Oregon Legalize Assisted Suicide, "San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, October 15, 1997, pp. A-1, A-5.
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