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Reconceptualizing ‘Psychiatric Futility’: Could Harm Reduction, Palliative Psychiatry and Assisted Dying Constitute a Three-Component Spectrum of Appropriate Practices?

Jeffrey KirbyDalhousie UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 65-67 | Published online: 21 Jun 2021

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