Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy

Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy - Hardcover

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Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy

Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy - Hardcover

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Book Overview

by David Clark (Author)

Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at school before gaining entry to Oxford University to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. As World War Two gained momentum, she quit academic study to train as a nurse, thereby igniting her lifelong interest in caring for others. Following a back injury, she became a medical social worker, and then in her late 30s, qualified as a physician. By now her focus was on a hugely neglected area of modern health services: the care of the dying. When she 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, her legacy was firmly established in the growing field of hospice and palliative care, which had now gained global recognition.

Author Biography

Professor David Clark is the Wellcome Trust Investigator at the University of Glasgow, School of Interdisciplinary Studies in Dumfries, Scotland.

Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: June 12, 2018
ISBN9780190637934
Author David Clark
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreBiography, Education, and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedJune 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About David Clark

JON A. GILLASPIE is a freelance musicologist and music cataloger as well as a composer, arranger, record producer, and experienced bassoonist and keyboard player. His extensive travels researching into primary sources of wind harmony total more than three years in the field, and his own extensive collection includes the former wind harmony of the Lowenstein Kapelle. He has composed and arranged widely for wind ensemble, including many works for the Dorchester Wind Players.MARSHALL STONEHAM is Massey Professor of Physics, University College London, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Chief Scientist of AEA Technology. He has written extensively, not only on the physical sciences, but on music as well. He has taken the opportunity to visit libraries in many countries when on travels associated with his scientific work. He is an experienced horn player and the founder and organizer of the Dorchester Wind Players, which, over the past 20 years, has played many works of the genre documented in this catalog.DAVID LINDSEY CLARK is a former music librarian to Oxfordshire County Libraries, Oxford, England. He has been involved in the revision of the music catalogs of a number of libraries, including the Bodleian of Oxford University. Now retired, he continues his bibliographical work exploring the repertoire of music about which he has written for many years.

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