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Law, ethics and medicine
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A test for mental capacity to request assisted suicide
- Correspondence to Associate Professor Cameron Stewart, Director of the Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia; cameron.stewart{at}usyd.edu.au
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A test for mental capacity to request assisted suicide
Publication history
- Received May 4, 2010
- Revised August 20, 2010
- Accepted September 2, 2010
- First published November 21, 2010.
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December 12, 2010
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