Competent care for the dying instead of physician-assisted suicide Journal Article


Author: Foley, K. M.
Article Title: Competent care for the dying instead of physician-assisted suicide
Keywords: united states; pain; palliative therapy; editorial; legal aspect; patient care; terminally ill; physician; regulation; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; terminal care; dying; degenerative disease; stress, psychological; education, medical; euthanasia; empirical research; morality; competence; terminal disease; suicide, assisted; supreme court decisions; suffering; withholding treatment; death and euthanasia; court; cancer; humans; priority journal; legal approach; value of life; vulnerable populations; social control, formal; compassion; clinical approach/source; analytical approach; killing; legal rights; wedge argument; euthanasia, active; persons
Journal Title: New England Journal of Medicine
Volume: 336
Issue: 1
ISSN: 0028-4793
Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society  
Date Published: 1997-01-02
Start Page: 54
End Page: 58
Language: English
PUBMED: 8970941
PROVIDER: scopus
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Notes: See DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199701023360109 for article -- Editorial -- Export Date: 17 March 2017 -- Source: Scopus
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