Item K/PP149/6/3/30 - Background research, 1973-1985, for a paper given at a conference, 'The Church's ministry of healing to the dying', 1985

Notes, articles and correspondence relating to the role of spirituality and religion in the care of the terminally ill, collected in preparation for a 1985 conference, 'The Church's ministry of healing to the dying'. File includes: Cicely Saunders' article 'The working of St Christopher's', published in Medical care of the dying patient (Foundation of Thanatology, New York, 1974); a newsletter of the Assembly of Episcopal Chaplains, reporting on lectures on bereavement, March 1974, by Saunders, Dr Samuel Klagsbrun and Rev Carleton Sweetser; a seminar paper, 'Thoughts on the spiritual component in care of the terminally ill', by Florence Wald, 1985; requests from Saunders for information on the spiritual origins of the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation and the Sue Ryder Foundation, 1985.