Clinical issues in euthanasia
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 166 (3) , 150-152
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb140051.x
Abstract
We consider the euthanasia debate from the perspective of the clinical interface between doctors, patients and their families-a perspective that is lacking in much public discussion of euthanasia (defined as the deliberate taking of an individual's life at their request).Keywords
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