Criminalising Carers: Death Desires and Assisted Dying Outlaws

Death Rites and Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-73

  Biggs, Hazel ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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