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Is medically assisted death a special obligation?
- Correspondence to Professor Eduardo Rivera-López, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Av. Figueroa Alcorta, CABA 7350, Argentina; erivera@utdt.edu
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Is medically assisted death a special obligation?
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- Received March 28, 2016
- Revised December 2, 2016
- Accepted January 11, 2017
- First published January 30, 2017.
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May 26, 2017
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