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PDFWithdrawing and withholding artificial nutrition and hydration
Is it better to be minimally conscious than vegetative?
- Correspondence to Dr Dominic Wilkinson, The Robinson Institute, University of Adelaide, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia; dominic.wilkinson@adelaide.edu.au
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Is it better to be minimally conscious than vegetative?
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- Received July 12, 2012
- Accepted July 31, 2012
- First published September 1, 2012.
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April 27, 2016
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