Key Information
Reference code
K/PP149/10/4
Title
Audio recording of an interview with Dame Cicely Saunders on her work in the hospice movement and pain management, 11 Aug 1993
Date(s)
- 1993 Aug 11 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
2 items (2 cassettes)
Scope and content
Recorded interview with Dame Cicely Saunders conducted in her office at St Christopher's Hospice by American psychologist John Liebeskind, of the University of California, Los Angeles, for an oral history project on the history of pain. Subjects include: Saunders' family background and education; her early work with the terminally ill; the establishment and expansion of St Christopher's Hospice; palliative care as a medical discipline in the UK and worldwide; current issues in end of life care.