Assisted death: a basic right or a threat to the principal purpose of medicine?

There is much debate in the UK and abroad around whether the law should be changed to license doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to assist terminally ill patients to commit suicide. Here, Sir Graeme Catto argues that terminally ill mentally competent adults should be able to choose the time and place...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2014, Vol.44 (2), p.134-138
Hauptverfasser:	Catto, G, Finlay, I G
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