Our Lives and Ideologies

@article{Amundson2005OurLA,  title={Our Lives and Ideologies},  author={Ronald Amundson and Gayle Taira},  journal={Journal of Disability Policy Studies},  year={2005},  volume={16},  pages={53 - 57},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143674103}}
This article reports how two individuals were led to change their beliefs about physician-assisted suicide as a result of their life experiences with disability.

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