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Palliative care: Definition of euthanasia

David James Jackson Muckart, Dean Gopalan, Timothy Hardcastle, Eric Hodgson, D J McQuoid-Mason

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David James Jackson Muckart, Department of Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Dean Gopalan, Department of Anaesthesiology, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Timothy Hardcastle, Department of Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Eric Hodgson, Department of Anaesthesiology, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

D J McQuoid-Mason, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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euthanasia; palliative care

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South African Medical Journal 2014;104(4):259-260. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.8016

Article History

Date submitted: 2014-02-03
Date published: 2014-03-17

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