Cicely Saunders - Founder of the Hospice Movement : Selected letters 1959-1999

ISBN-13: 9780198569695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 412 str.

David Clark

Opis

In 1967 Dame Cicely Saunders opened St. Christopher's Hospice in London to promote clinical innovation, education and research in the care of dying people. That humanitarian action launched what became the world-wide movement of palliative care. Cicely Saunders had conceived of a comprehensive approah to dealing with the physical, social and psychological suffering of dying people.
This book provides an insight into how Dame Cicely's ideas developed, where they took root and the remarkable effects they had subsequently, all around the world. Previously unpublished letters tell the extraordinary story of the international spread of a modern hospice and palliative care movement.

Recenzje

I reviewed this wonderful book when it was first released in 2002. OUP have now issued a more affordable paperback edition. It remains highly recommended.

O autorze

David Clark is the author and editor of many books and papers and has written widely on sociological aspects of religion, family life and end of life care. His more recent interests include the history of hospice, palliative care and pain medicine; policy issues in the international development of palliative care; and related ethical questions. He is currently writing a major work on the global history of hospice and palliative care.