Young Kuwaitis' views of the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide.
AIM: To study the views of people in a largely Muslim country, Kuwait, of the acceptability of a life-ending action such as physician-assisted suicide (PAS). METHOD: 330 Kuwaiti university students judged the acceptability of PAS in 36 scenarios composed of all combinations of four factors: the pati...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 36; no. 11; pp. 671 - 677 |
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BMJ Publishing Group
Nov2010
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