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Controversy
Withholding artificial feeding from the severely demented: merciful or immoral? Contrasts between secular and Jewish perspectives
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Withholding artificial feeding from the severely demented: merciful or immoral? Contrasts between secular and Jewish perspectives
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- First published August 20, 2003.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2003 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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