Is Euthanasia Psychiatric Treatment? The Struggle With Death on Request in the Netherlands.

Am J Psychiatry

Dr. Denys is from the Psychiatry Program, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, and is President of the Dutch Society of Psychiatrists.

Published: September 2018


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