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5 - Legal Hypocrisy?

from Part II - The Ethical Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2018

John Keown
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Outlines the guidelines for voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide laid down by the courts and Dutch medical profession in the 1980s and considers whether they were either precisely defined or strict.
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Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
An Argument against Legalisation
, pp. 56 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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  • Legal Hypocrisy?
  • John Keown, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
  • Online publication: 28 September 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107337909.012
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  • Legal Hypocrisy?
  • John Keown, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
  • Online publication: 28 September 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107337909.012
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  • Legal Hypocrisy?
  • John Keown, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Book: Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
  • Online publication: 28 September 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107337909.012
Available formats
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