Dame Cicely Saunders
 
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Saunders C
Watch with me. Inspiration for a life in hospice care
Mortal Press 2003
£7.50

A bound collection of five of Dame Cicely Saunders talks or papers, covering four decades. ''Watch with me'' was part of a talk to the annual general meeting of St Christopher''s Hospice and was originally published in the Nursing Times, 1965. ''Faith'' was first published in The Guildford Lectures, 1974. ''Facing Death'' was first published in The Way, 1984. ''A personal therapeutic journey'' appeared in the British Medical Journal, 1996; and ''Consider him'' is the text of a lecture given at Westminster Cathedral Hall in 2003. Foreword by David Clark. 
 
Saunders C, Clark D
Cicely Saunders. Selected writings 1958-2004
Oxford University Press, 2006.
£32.95

This book includes a selection of Cicely Saunders'' most important writings throughout a period of over forty years.  Full articles, chapters, editorials, reviews, and commentaries include important clinical themes relating to the care of dying people such as pain and symptom management, issues of communication and truth telling, and the needs of particular patient groups, such as those with cancer and other diseases. The book includes pieces that reflect on the wider development of the palliative care field and on policy and organisational issues. Some of the papers take up the theme of spiritual care at the end of life, as well as the question of euthanasia, raising in turn issues of a wider theological and philosophical nature.  The articles are written for a multi-disciplinary audience and will be of enormous interest to many professionals now working in palliative care. 

Clark D (Ed)
Cicely Saunders.  Founder of the hospice movement.  Selected letters 1959-1999
Oxford University Press, 2005
£35.00

"In this collection of letters covering the period 1959-1999 and selected from approximately 7,000 letters that were in Cicely Saunders'' archives, we learn first-hand about the development of the modern hospice movement.  We do not have copies of the correspondence to Cicely Saunders which makes this book ''cool'' in Marshal McLuhan''s sense: ''high in participation and completion by the audience''.  The book reads like a detective story."
Tom A Hutchinson, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2003 v26(4) p968.

The library at St Christopher’s Hospice contains an extensive collection of articles by Dame Cicely Saunders.  For further information and details please contact the Librarian.

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