Physicians and execution--highlights from a discussion of lethal injection.
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بررسی اخلاقی مشارکت پزشک در اجرای مجازات‌های قانونی محکومان
Presence of physicians in different fields of the society has always been associated with ethical and legal considerations. Physician participation in legal punishment is one of the areas that are associated with different perspectives. In medical history, physicians and medical professionals have participated in legal punishment in different ways, but they have been directly involved with this...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The New England journal of medicine
دوره 358 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008