Cicely Saunders

English writer, doctor, founder of the hospice care movement, palliative care activist · United Kingdom · Writers · Lived 1918 to 2005 · aged 87

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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 legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.

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2005Died14 July 20052004Ernst von Bergmann PlaqueAwardParacelsus Medal of the German Medical AssociationAward2003Viktor Frankl AwardAward1989Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian PrizeAward1986Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsAward1985Elizabeth Blackwell AwardAward1981Fellow of the Royal College of NursingAward1978Honorary DoctorateAward1918Born22 June 1918

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