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The nurse's role in assisted suicide

M S Bosek, D Jezuit

    Medsurg Nursing : Official Journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
    |October 1, 1995
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    Death and Euthanasia

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