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    Lars Johan Materstvedt (Chair, EAPC Ethics Task Force on Palliative Care and Euthanasia)

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Materstvedt, L.J. Palliative care in seven European countries. Med Health Care Philos 5, 307–309 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021197327835

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