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SELF-ADMINISTERED MEDICAL ASSISTANCE DYING [1 record]

Record 1 2019-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Health Law
  • Ethics and Morals
CONT

… a physician or nurse practitioner who provides or prescribes a drug that the eligible person takes themselves, in order to bring about their own death. This [method] is becoming known as self-administered medical assistance in dying.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Droit de la santé
  • Éthique et Morale
CONT

[...] soit un médecin, soit un infirmier praticien qui donne ou prescrit un médicament que la personne admissible prend elle-même, afin de provoquer sa propre mort. [Cette] méthode [est] nommée dorénavant aide médicale à mourir auto-administrée.

OBS

aide médicale à mourir auto-administrée : terme tiré du mini-lexique «Soins en fin de vie et aide médicale à mourir» et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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