Cicely Saunders Selected Writings 1958-2004

by Saunders, Cicely; Clark, David

• ISBN13: 9780198570530
• ISBN10: 0198570538
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Cicely Saunders is universally acclaimed as a pioneer of modern hospice care. Trained initially in nursing and social work, she qualified in medicine in 1958 and subsequently dedicated the whole of her professional life to improving the care of the dying and bereaved people. Founding St. Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967, she encouraged a radical new approach to end of life care combining attention to physical, social, emotional and spiritual problems, brilliantly captured in her concept of "total pain." Her ideas about clinical care, education and research have been hugely influential, leading to numerous prizes and awards in recognition of her humanitarian achievements. This book includes a selection of Cicely Saunders' most important writings throughout a period of over forty years. Full articles, chapters, editiorials, 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 organizational 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. The collection will become a key work of reference for those interested in the evolution of hospice and palliative care and will serve as an important sourcebook of many currently hard to obtain publications by the acknowledged founder of the modern hospice movement. This book will also stand as a remarkable testimony to the personal contribution of Cicely Saunders and the influence she has had upon the modern field of palliative and end of life care.

Author Biography

A pioneer of modern palliative care, Cicely Saunders has helped change the way the world cares for the terminally ill. She founded St. Christopher's Hospice in 1967 as the first research and teaching hospice linked with clinical care. Dame Cicely holds many honours including degrees and the Order of Merit and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1980. In 2001 she received the Conrad N Hilton Humanitarian Prize - the world's largest humanitarian award - of one million dollars for her work originated at St Christopher's Hospice. She is a Founder Trustee and President of a new force in hospice care - The Cicely Saunders Foundation. This unique charity, founded in 2002, seeks to improve the care of people at the end of life wherever they are cared for. David Clark is currently engaged in a number of studies concerned with service evaluation relating to the provision of palliative care and with issues of policy development, the international growth of palliative care and related ethical issues. He has a particular interest in the historical development of the modern end of life care movement and is currently writing a book about the history of the Project on Death in America. He is the author of numerous volumes and papers as well as an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a tr

Table of Contents

Introduction by David Clark	xiii
1 Dying of Cancer	1	(12)
St Thomas's Hospital Gazette 1958
2 Should a Patient Know...?	13	(4)
Nursing Times 1959
3 When a Patient is Dying	17	(4)
Nursing Times 1959
4 The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage	21	(16)
Cancer 1960
5 And From Sudden Death...	37	(4)
Frontier 1961
6 A Patient	41	(8)
Nursing Times 1961
7 The Care of the Dying	49	(4)
Better Health 1961
8 Terminal Illness	53	(4)
Proceedings of Health Congress of the Royal Society of Health 1961
9 Working at St. Joseph's Hospice Hackney	57	(4)
Annual Report of St Vincent's Dublin 1962
10 The Treatment of Intractable Pain in Terminal Cancer	61	(4)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1963
11 Distress in Dying	65	(2)
British Medical Journal 1963
12 The Depths and the Possible Heights	67	(4)
Medical News 1964
13 The Need for Institutional Care for the Patient with Advanced Cancer	71	(8)
Anniversary Volume, Cancer Institute, Madras 1964
14 The Last Stages of Life	79	(8)
American Journal of Nursing 1965
15 The Last Frontier	87	(4)
Frontier 1966
16 The Management of Terminal Illness	91	(24)
Hospital Medicine Publications Ltd 1967
17 St. Christopher's Hospice	115	(4)
British Hospital Journal and Social Service Review 1967
18 Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine	119	(6)
Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology 1970
19 A Place to Die	125	(4)
Crux 1973-4
20 Dimensions of Death	129	(4)
Religion and Medicine 1975
21 The Problem of Euthanasia (Care of the dying — 1)	133	(6)
Nursing Times 1976
22 Appropriate Treatment, Appropriate Death	139	(8)
The Management of Terminal Disease 1st edn. 1978
23 The Philosophy of Terminal Care	147	(10)
The Management of Terminal Disease 1st edn. 1978
24 Templeton Prize Speech	157	(6)
Unpublished 1981
25 Current Views on Pain Relief and Terminal Care	163	(20)
The Therapy of Pain 1981
26 Heroin and Morphine in Advanced Cancer	183	(2)
The New England Journal of Medicine 1984
27 Pain and Impending Death	185	(12)
Textbook of Pain 1984
28 On Dying Well	197	(6)
The Cambridge Review 1984
29 Evaluation of Hospice Activities	203	(2)
Journal of Chronic Disease 1984
30 The Modern Hospice	205	(10)
Quest of the Spiritual Component of Care for the Terminally Ill: Proceedings of a Colloquium 1986
31 Foreword (Pain: An Exploration)	215	(2)
Pain: An Exploration 1986
32 Spiritual Pain	217	(6)
Journal of Palliative Care 1988
33 Hospice — a Meeting Place for Religion and Science	223	(6)
Science and Faith 1989
34 Letter (on Alfred Worcester)	229	(2)
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care 1992
35 Voluntary Euthanasia	231	(6)
Palliative Medicine 1992
36 Foreword (Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing)	237	(2)
Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing 1996
37 Why I Welcome TV Cameras at the Death Bed	239	(4)
Daily Mail 1998
38 Foreword (Good Practices in Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective)	243	(2)
Good Practices in Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective 1998
39 Origins: International Perspectives, Then and Now	245	(6)
The Hospice Journal 1999
40 The Evolution of Palliative Care	251	(8)
Patient Education and Counseling 2000
41 A Voice for the Voiceless	259	(4)
Patient Participation in Palliative Care. A Voice for the Voiceless 2003
42 The Evolution of Palliative Care	263	(6)
The Pharos 2003
43 Foreword (Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine)	269	(10)
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine 3rd edn. 2004
44 Introduction (Management of Advanced Disease)	279	(6)
Management of Advanced Disease 2004
Index	285