Physician-assisted suicide: Safe, legal, rare?

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 63-72

  Battin, Margaret P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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