There is something ironic and horrible in the notion that the first clear breach in the voluntariness of legal euthanasia – that all euthanasia be the result of a competent, capable choice – should be made in psychiatry. For we are accustomed to trust psychiatry with the defense and arbitration of choice itself. It is psychiatrists who have specific expertise in studying the voluntary operation of the will: capable, competent and ...
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2018