Cicely Saunders

Prologue - whys and wherefores 1. The Saunders' of Hadley Hurst (1918-38) · Beginnings · Schooldays · Philip Gordon Saunders · Mary Christian Knight · Life with the Saunders · Emerging to womanhood 2. Social science, nursing, social work (1938 - 1951) · The first Oxford interlude · Nurse training in war time · Second Oxford interlude · The evangelical almoner · David Tasma · Aftermath 3. Becoming a doctor (1951 - 1957) · The influence of Norman Barrett · Sancte et Sapienter · Patients and their worlds · Evangelical circles · Drawing together her experience · Practical applications 4. Learning the craft and crafting the vision (1957 - 1967) · A decade of change · At St Joseph's · 1960-1 - Antoni Michniewicz, Mrs G., Gordon Saunders · Total pain · Clinical studies · Marian Bohusz-Szyszko · Writing, writing, writing · Religious considerations and the ambition for St Christopher's · Making it happen · Growing networks · The hospice opens its doors 5. The expansive years of hospice in the world (1967 - 1985) · The hospice movement · St Christopher's gets going · Friends, family and marriage · Clinical themes and issues · The maturing of ideas · A global influence 6. 'An exacting joy': reflection, illness, loss and death (1985 - 2005) · Good times and bad · With Marian · The developing field · Last years at the hospice · Personal rewards · Radio, television, interviews · Photographs, portraits and sculptures · Revisiting the past: David, Antoni and Marian · Belief and the 'cantus firmus' · Illness and death Epilogue - making sense of Cicely Saunders