Key Information
Reference code
K/PP149/4/2/91
Title
CLOSED general USA correspondence, U-V, 1964-1993
Date(s)
- 1964 - 1993 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; invitations to give lectures; published articles; news of hospice developments in the US. File includes: correspondence, 1965-1966, with the Veteran's Administration Hospital, San Francisco concerning a planned visit by Saunders; correspondence with Sidney Cohen on the therapeutic use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD); correspondence, 1989-1993, with Harold Y Vanderpool, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, concerning his article, 'The ethics of terminal care', published in Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978, which Saunders quoted frequently. Personal data in the file is CLOSED during the lifetime of Harold Y Vanderpool.