Euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and palliative
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: ongoing controversies.
When, back in 2002, Chao et al1 reviewed the topic of euthanasia, there was a trend toward legalising it in a few countries. The Netherlands had just passed a bill in April 2001 to legalise the practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and Belgium was in the process of doing so. Before the bill, Dutch physicians had practised euthanasia and PAS under a set of guidelines agreed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.annonc.a010788