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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
Assisted suicide and the killing of people? Maybe. Physician-assisted suicide and the killing of patients? No: the rejection of Shaw's new perspective on euthanasia
- Correspondence to Professor Hugh V McLachlan, School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK; H.McLachlan{at}gcal.ac.uk
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Assisted suicide and the killing of people? Maybe. Physician-assisted suicide and the killing of patients? No: the rejection of Shaw's new perspective on euthanasia
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- Received September 4, 2009
- Revised January 6, 2010
- Accepted January 8, 2010
- First published May 6, 2010.
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May 06, 2010
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