Cicely Saunders, English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (died 2005)

Cicely Saunders

English nurse, social worker, physician and writer

Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the…