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DAME CICELY SAUNDERS, MD
(1918 - 2005)
Founder, St. Christopher’s Hospice, England, 1967
Dame Cicely
Saunders,
OM
, DBE, FRCP, is credited with founding the
modern hospice movement with the opening of St.
Christopher’s Hospice in
England
in 1967. Trained as a nurse and then as a social
worker, Dr. Saunders earned her medical degree
in 1958 and spent more than fifty years creating
both a philosophy and practice of care to
humanize the dying experience for patients and
their families. Her concept of “total pain,”
which embraced physical, social, emotional and
spiritual suffering revolutionized the
traditional view of suffering in the medical
model of end-of-life care.
Dr. Saunders’ insistence that hospice
care integrate both the heart and the mind has
led to a model of clinical care, education and
research that has changed the face of dying
across the world. In addition to receiving the
prestigious Order of the
British Empire
, Dr. Saunders received numerous awards and
honors in recognition of her humanitarian work.
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FLORENCE WALD, MN, MS
Founder, First Hospice in the U.S., 1974
Florence Wald, MN, MS, FAAN, is a former Dean of the Yale University School of Nursing and distinguished clinical professor of nursing at Yale University. Wald is a world-renowned leader in nursing research. She holds three degrees from Yale: Master of Nursing, Master of Science and Honorary Doctor of Medical Sciences. She has been awarded the honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Bridgeport and the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Mt. Holyoke College. She has also been awarded the prestigious title of “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing.
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ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, MD
(1926 - 2004)
Author of the groundbreaking ON DEATH AND DYING, 1969
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist, was the founder of the Death with Dignity Movement and author of the groundbreaking 1969 book, ON DEATH AND DYING, which continues to be the best-selling book in the field. She
earned a place as one of the best-loved and most respected authorities on the subject of dying, death and grief. She
wrote more than twenty books on the subject, including TO LIVE UNTIL WE SAY GOOD-BYE; ON CHILDREN AND DEATH; AIDS, THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE; and her autobiography, THE WHEEL OF LIFE. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages. She
was the recipient of more than 29 honorary doctorate degrees. Among
the numerous awards she received are The American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award, the American Academy of Bereavement’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 1993 and the Founder’s Award from the National Hospice Organization in 1993. She was named one of the “One Hundred Most Important Thinkers of the Century” by Time Magazine in 1999. Her classic book, ON DEATH AND DYING, was included among “One Hundred Most Important Books of the Century.”
Tribute
to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD by D. Brookes
Cowan, PhD. MSW, Chair of the Madison-Deane
Initiative (click here)
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BALFOUR MOUNT, MD
Founder of Palliative Care in Canada, 1974
Balfour Mount, MD, FRCSPC, is the Founding Director of the Royal Victoria Hospital Palliative Care Service at McGill University. He currently serves as the Eric Flanders Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada and is the founder and director of the McGill Programs in Integrated Whole Person Care. He received the Order of Canada for his work with the dying. In 2000, he also received the Award of Excellence from the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, and in recognition of his outstanding contribution nationally and internationally to the development of Palliative Care, Dr. Balfour Mount was awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) from Queen’s University.
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ERIC
J. CASSELL, MD
Eric J. Cassell,
MD, MACP, is Clinical Professor of Public Health
at Weill Medical College of Cornell University
in New York, and an attending physician at The
New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Cassell has
written widely about ethical and moral problems
in medicine, the care of the dying and the
nature of suffering.
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COLIN
MURRAY PARKES, MD
Colin Murray
Parkes, MD, OBE, FRCPsych has been a close
associate of Dr. Cicely Saunders since the
inception of the modern hospice movement. He is
a world-renowned scholar in the field of
bereavement and has authored many books on loss
and grief.
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