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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Cover; CICELY SAUNDERS A Life and Legacy; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Prologue: Whys and Wherefores; 1 The Saunders of Hadley Hurst (1918 - 1938); Beginnings; Emotional Landscape; Schooldays; Philip Gordon Saunders; Mary Christian Knight; Life with the Saunders; Emerging to Womanhood; 2 Social Science, Nursing, Social Work (1938 - 1951); The First Oxford Interlude; Nurse Training in Wartime; Second Oxford Interlude; The Evangelical Almoner; David Tasma; Aftermath; 3 Becoming a Doctor (1951 - 1957); The Influence of Norman Barrett; Sancte et Sapienter |
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Patients and Their WorldsEvangelical Circles; Drawing Together Her Experience; Practical Applications; 4 Learning the Craft and Crafting the Vision (1957 - 1967); A Decade of Change; At St Joseph's; Antoni Michniewicz, Mrs. G., and Gordon Saunders (1960 -- 1961); Total Pain; Clinical Studies; Marian Bohusz-Szyszko; Writing, Writing, Writing; Religious Considerations and the Ambition for St Christopher's; Making It Happen; Growing Networks; The Hospice Opens Its Doors; 5 The Expansive Years of Hospice in the World (1967 - 1985); The Hospice Movement; St Christopher's Gets Going |
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Friends, Family, and MarriageClinical Themes and Issues; The Maturing of Ideas; A Global Influence; Honours and Plaudits; Meeting Her Biographer; Challenges - Personal and Professional; 6 Reflection, Illness, Loss, and Death (1985 - 2005); Good Times and Bad; With Marian; The Developing Field; Last Years at the Hospice; Personal Rewards; Radio, Television, Interviews; Photographs, Portraits, and Sculptures; Revisiting the Past: David, Antoni, and Marian; Belief and the 'Cantus Firmus'; Illness and Death; Epilogue - Making Sense of Cicely Saunders; Reverberations |
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Capacities and ContradictionsFuture Scholarship and Influence; Index |
| Summary |
When Cicely Saunders opened the world's first modern hospice in 1967 a quiet revolution got underway. Education, research, and clinical practice were combined in a model of 'total care' for terminally ill patients and their families that quickly had a massive impact. In Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy, David Clark draws on interviews, correspondence, and the publications of Cicely Saunders to tell the remarkable story of how she pursued her goals through the complexity of her personal life, the skepticism of others, and the pervasive influence of her religious faith. When she died in 2005, |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Saunders, Cicely M., Dame.
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Saunders, Cicely M., Dame |
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Saunders, Cicely M., Dame fast |
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St. Christopher's Hospice |
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Physicians -- England -- Biography
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Hospice care.
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Hospices (Terminal care)
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Terminal care.
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Terminal care facilities.
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Physicians.
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Hospice Care -- history
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Palliative Care -- history
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Physicians
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History, 20th Century
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Terminal Care
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Hospice Care
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Hospices
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terminal care facilities.
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physicians.
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Terminal care facilities
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Terminal care
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Hospice care
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Hospices (Terminal care)
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Physicians
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England |
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England
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190637941 |
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0190637943 |
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9780190637965 |
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019063796X |
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