About the practice of psychiatric euthanasia: a commentary
Abstract Euthanasia motivated by mental disorders is legal in only a few countries and has a short history. In a recent report of all psychiatric euthanasia cases in Belgium between 2002 and 2013, Dierickx and colleagues suggest that the number of these cases is increasing, and provide a profile of...
Main Author: | Jorge Lopez-Castroman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-06-01
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Series: | BMC Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-017-0896-3 |
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