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Cicely Saunders : founder of the hospice movement : selected letters 1959-1999 /

Dame Cicely conceived of an approach, for dealing with the variety of symptoms and suffering often experienced by patients, with progressive debilitating disease. This book provides an insight into the establishment of the hospice movement and its development world-wide, as recorded through the lett...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saunders, Cicely M., Dame
Other Authors: Clark, David, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Saunders, Cicely M., > Dame > Correspondence.
Saunders, Cicely M., > Dame.
Hospices (Terminal care) > Great Britain > History.
Terminal care > Great Britain > History.
Palliative treatment > Great Britain > History.
Hospice Care > history
Correspondence
United Kingdom
Équipements de soins en phase terminale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Soins en phase terminale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Soins palliatifs > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Hospices (Terminal care)
Palliative treatment.
Terminal care.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Letter
History.
Personal correspondence.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Dame Cicely conceived of an approach, for dealing with the variety of symptoms and suffering often experienced by patients, with progressive debilitating disease. This book provides an insight into the establishment of the hospice movement and its development world-wide, as recorded through the letters of its founder.
Item Description:Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2002.
Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 397 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
ISBN:9780191730559
0191730556