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From the Editors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , Fall 1997 , pp. 365 - 369
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1. This editorial is based on: Thomasma, DC. Fact and fantasy: bioethics in the 21st century. San Fransisco Medicine 1996;69(1):28–29.Google Scholar

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3. The newest volley in the euthanasia debate has been fired by Hendin, H. Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure. New York: WW Norton and Co., 1997. Some of the editors and authors of this journal have interviewed physicians, ethicists, theologians, policymakers, and families in the Netherlands about the euthanasia debate, and have produced a book manuscript, “Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia” submitted for review at Kluwer Academic Publishers.Google ScholarPubMed

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