To Die, to Sleep: US Physicians' Religious and Other Objections to Physician-Assisted Suicide, Terminal Sedation, and Withdrawal of Life Support

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  2008

• Venue

  The American journal of hospice & palliative care

• Publication date

  2008-01-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1177/1049909107310141PMID 18198363PMCID PMC2867462
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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