The supreme court and terminal sedation: An ethically inferior alternative to physician-assisted suicide

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 301-311

  Orentlicher, David ^a  

^a Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis   (United States)

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