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Research Article

Nurse-Assisted Suicide: Not an Answer in End-of-Life Care

Phyllis King The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Marti Jordan-Welch The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Pages 45-57 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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