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Is the exclusion of psychiatric patients from access to physician-assisted suicide discriminatory?
- Correspondence to Joshua James Hatherley, School of Historical, Philosophical, and International Studies, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; joshua.hatherley{at}monash.edu
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Is the exclusion of psychiatric patients from access to physician-assisted suicide discriminatory?
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- Received April 30, 2019
- Revised August 6, 2019
- Accepted August 8, 2019
- First published August 28, 2019.
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December 06, 2019
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