Bibliography of Cicely Saunders

Dame Cicely Saunders was a prolific writer of published articles, introductions to books, reviews, letters and other communications. Her writings are an important historical record of the history of the hospice movement.

This chronological bibliography of the publications of Cicely Saunders was prepared by Professor David Clark with assistance from Ruth Ashfield. It is a work in progress, and was last updated on 1st August 2016.

For further information please contact David Clark or find out more about our research into the life and works of Cicely Saunders.

Chronological bibliography

  • Saunders, C. (1958) Dying of cancer, St Thomas’s Hospital Gazette, 56(2): 37-47
  • Saunders, C.(1959a) Care of the dying 1. The problem of euthanasia. Nursing Times, October 9: 960-61
  • Saunders, C. (1959b) Care of the dying 2. Should a patient know ...? Nursing Times, October 16: 994-95
  • Saunders, C. (1959c) Care of the dying 3. Control of pain in terminal cancer. Nursing Times, October 23: 1031-32
  • Saunders, C. (1959d) Care of the dying 4. Mental distress in the dying. Nursing Times, October 30: 1067-69
  • Saunders, C. (1959e) Care of the dying 5. The nursing of patients dying of cancer. Nursing Times, November 6: 1091-92
  • Saunders, C. (1959f) Care of the dying 6. When a patient is dying. Nursing Times, November 19: 1129-30
  • Saunders, C. (1960a) The Christian and healing. Portman Review. January: 4-5
  • Saunders, C. (1960b) The management of patients in the terminal stage. In R. Raven ed Cancer, Vol 6. London: Butterworth and Company, 403-17
  • Saunders, C. (1960c) Review of H.L. Glyn Hughes (1960) Peace at the Last. London: The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Nursing Times, July 15: 879.
  • Saunders, C. (1960d) Drug treatment of patients in the terminal stages of cancer. Current Medicine and Drugs 1(1) July: 16-28
  • Saunders, C. (1960e) Care of the Dying. London: Nursing Times reprint, pp33
  • Saunders, C. (1961a) And from sudden death ... Frontier, Winter [no page numbers]
  • Saunders, C. (1961b) A patient ... Nursing Times, 31 March: 394-97
  • Saunders, C. (1961c) The care of the dying. Better Health, May: 18-20
  • Saunders, C. (1961d) Terminal illness. Proceedings of Health Congress, Royal Society of Health; Symposium on ‘Teaching, an aspect of home care’, Blackpool 24-28 April. London: Royal Society of Health: 112-14
  • [A Doctor] Saunders, C. (1961e) Lonely and Fearful. London: The Church Union, pp 7
  • [A Doctor] Saunders, C. (1961f) Why does God allow Suffering? London: The Church Union, pp 11
  • Saunders, C. (1961g) Euthanasia. Letter. The Lancet, 2 September: 548-49
  • Saunders, C. (1962a) ‘And from sudden death ...’ Nursing Times, 17 August: 1045-46
  • Saunders, C. (1962b) Working at St Joseph’s Hospice, Hackney. Annual Report of St Vincent’s, Dublin: 37-39
  • Saunders, C. (1962c) Uncertainty and fear. Proceedings of a Conference on Long-term Illness and its Implications, October 19 1962. London: Queen’s Institute of District Nursing, 7-9
  • Saunders, C. (1962d) Uncertainty and fear. District Nursing, December: 200-2
  • Saunders, C. (1963a) The treatment of intractable pain in terminal cancer. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 56(3) March: 195-97, (Section of Surgery, pp5-7)
  • Saunders, C. (1963b) Care of the dying. Current Medical Abstracts for Practitioners, 3(2) 30 June: 77-82
  • Saunders, C. (1963c) Distress in dying. Letter, British Medical Journal, 21 September Vol II, July-December: 746
  • Saunders, C. (1964a) Care of patients suffering from terminal illness at St Joseph’s Hospice, Hackney, London. Nursing Mirror 14 February: vii-x
  • Saunders, C. (1964b) The care of the dying - how we can help. Medical News, February 21: 7
  • Saunders, C. (1964c) Death. The Living Church, July 26: 8-9
  • Saunders, C. (1964d) Review of F. Sauerbruch and H. Wenke (1963) Pain, Its Meaning and Significance. Translated Edward Fitzgerald. London: George Allen and Unwin. In Medical News, 10 July: 16-17
  • Saunders, C. (1964e) The symptomatic treatment of incurable malignant disease. Prescribers’ Journal 4(4), October: 68-73
  • [No author] Saunders, C. (1964f) Drugs in the treatment of the dying. Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin 2(26) 25 December: 101-04
  • Saunders, C. (1964g) The need for institutional care for the patient with advanced cancer. Anniversary Volume, Cancer Institute, Madras: 1-8
  • Saunders, C. (1965a) The last stages of life. American Journal of Nursing, 65(3) March: 70-75
  • Saunders, C. (1965b) The last stages of life. Nursing Times, 30 July: 1028-32
  • Saunders, C. (1965c) Light at the end of the road. In the Service of Medicine, Christian Medical Fellowship Quarterly, No 42, July: 2-7
  • Saunders, C. (1965d) Review of Church Assembly Board for Social Responsibility (1965) Review of Decisions About Life and Death. A problem in modern medicine. In Nursing Times, July 16: 978
  • Saunders, C. (1965e) Telling patients. District Nursing, September: 149-54
  • Saunders, C. (1965f) ‘Watch with me’. Nursing Times, 61(48) 26 November: 1615-17
  • Saunders, C. (1965g) The last stages of life. Irish Nursing News, Nov-Dec: 6-10 passim
  • Saunders, C. (1965h) Review of G. Gorer (1965) Death, Grief and Mourning in Contemporary Britain. London: The Cresset Press. In Medical News [no date or page numbers known]
  • Saunders, C. (1965i) Review of N. Autton, Death and Bereavement, London: SPCK. Nursing Times [date, volume or page numbers not known]
  • Saunders, C. (1966a) The care of the dying. Guy’s Hospital Gazette, 80, 19 March: 136-42
  • Saunders, C. (1966b) A medical director’s view. Psychiatric Opinion, 3(4), August: 28-34
  • Saunders, C. (1966c) Terminal patient care. Geriatrics, 21(12), December: 70-4
  • Saunders, C. (1966d) The management of terminal illness. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, December: 225-28
  • Saunders, C. (1966e) The last frontier. Frontier, Autumn: 183-86.
  • Saunders, C. (1966f) Review of [  ] Kolodny and [  ] McLoughlin, Comprehensive Approach to Pain Therapy. In Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine [date, volume or page numbers not known]
  • Saunders, C. (1967a) The management of terminal illness. Part two: The incidence of physical distress in the dying patient. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, January: [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders, C. (1967b) The management of terminal illness. Part three: Mental distress in the dying patient. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, February: 433-36
  • Saunders, C. (1967c) The last stages of life. Tidsskrift for Den Norske Laegeforening, 87(4), Feb 15: 248-52
  • [No author] Saunders, C. (1967d) St Christopher’s Hospice. Nursing Times, 28 July: 988-89
  • Saunders, C. (1967e) The care of the terminal stages of cancer. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons, 41 (Supplementary issue) Summer: 162-69
  • Saunders, C. (1967f) St Christopher’s Hospice. British Hospital Journal and Social Service Review. LXXVII: 2127-30.
  • Saunders, C. (1967g) The Management of Terminal Illness. London: Hospital Medicine Publications Limited, pp 30
  • Saunders, C. (1967h) The care of the dying. Gerontologica Clinica; 9(4-6): 385-90
  • Saunders, C. (1967i) Review of J. Hinton Dying. Harmondsworth: Penguin. In Nursing Times; 28 July: 990
  • Weist V, Saunders C, Winner A. Bedsores [Letter].(1968a) Lance; 1(534) Jan 20: 140
  • Saunders C. (1968b) Care of the dying. Nursing Outlook; 64(11) 15 March: [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1968c) The last stages of life. Recover, Summer: 26-29
  • Saunders C. (1968d) Pleie av døende [Care of the dying]. Sykeplein, 55(20) Oct: 589-90
  • Saunders C. (1968e) Die Pflege Sterbender [Care of the dying]. Deutsche Schwesternzeitung, 29(11) Nov: 565-67
  • Saunders C. (1969a) The moment of truth: care of the dying person. In: Pearson L ed. Death and Dying: current issues in the treatment of the dying person. Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University; 49-78
  • Saunders C. (1969b)The management of fatal illness in childhood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 62(6) June: 550-53 (Section of Paediatrics, pp 16-19)
  • Saunders C. (1969c) Relief of pain in inoperable malignant diseases. Medical News [volume, page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1970a) Nature and management of terminal pain. In: Shotter EF ed. Matters of Life and Death. London: Dartman, Longman and Todd; pp15-26
  • Saunders C. (1970b) Training for the practice of clinical gerontology: the role of social medicine. Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology, 5: 72-78
  • Saunders C. (1970c) An individual approach to the relief of pain. People and Cancer. London: The British Cancer Council; 34-38
  • Saunders C, Winner A. Analgesics in terminal disease [Letter] (1971a) British Medical Journal, 3(768) Jul. 24: 245
  • Saunders C. (1971b) The patient’s response to treatment. A photographic presentation showing patients and their families. In: Catastrophic Illness in the Seventies: critical issues and complex decisions. Proceedings of Fourth National Symposium, 15-16 October 1970: New York: Cancer Care, Inc: 33-46
  • Saunders C. (1972a) The care of the dying patient and his family. Contact, Supplement 38, Summer: 12-18
  • Saunders C. (1972b) A therapeutic community: St Christopher’s Hospice. In: Schoenberg B, Carr AC, Peretz D, Kutscher AH eds. Psychosocial Aspects of Terminal Care. New York and London: Columbia University Press: 275-89
  • Saunders C. (1972c) The last stages of life, In American Journal of Nursing The Dying Patient: A nursing perspective, [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1973a) A death in the family: a professional view. British Medical Journal, 1(844) Jan 6: 30-31
  • Saunders C. (1973b) The need for in-patient care for the patient with terminal cancer. Middlesex Hospital Journal, 72(3), February: 125-30
  • Saunders C. (1973c) Patient and doctor – the advanced stages of cancer. Proceedings of Eastern European Conference on Cancer Control, 12-14 May: 172-78
  • Saunders C, Winner A (1973). Research into terminal care of cancer patients. In: McLachlan G (ed.). Portfolio for Health 2. The Developing Programme of the DHSS in Health Services Research, pp. 19–25. Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust. London: Oxford University Press
  • Saunders C. (1973e) Foreword. In: Lamerton R. Care of the Dying. London: Priory Press: 7-9
  • Saunders C. (1973-4) A place to die. Crux, 11(3): 24-27
  • Saunders C. (1974a) The working of St. Christopher’s. In: Foundation of Thanatology. Medical Care of the Dying Patient. New York: Foundation of Thanatology: [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1974b) Caring for the dying. In: Lack S, Lamerton R eds. The Hour of Our Death. London: Geoffrey Chapman: 18-27
  • Saunders C. (1974c) Faith. Guildford Lectures. Guildford: Seven Corners Press Ltd: 1-7
  • Saunders C. (1974d) Sermon preached in Bristol Cathedral. The Road, 145, Feb-March: 9-11
  • Saunders C. (1974e) Terminal care. In: Bagshawe KD ed. Medical Oncology. Oxford: Blackwell: 559-72
  • Saunders C.(1975a)  (Member of Church of England Board of Social Responsibility Working Party) On Dying Well: an Anglican contribution to the debate on euthanasia. London: Church Information Office: pp 67
  • Saunders C. (1975b) Dimensions of death. In: Melinsky MAH ed. Religion and Medicine. London: SCM: 113-16
  • Saunders C. (1975c) Hope. In: Thought for the Day. (No publisher or place of publication stated): 16-20
  • Saunders C. (1976a) The challenge of terminal care. In: Symington T, Carter R eds. The Scientific Foundations of Oncology. London: Heinemann: 673-79
  • Saunders C. (1976b) Care of the dying – 1. The problem of euthanasia. Nursing Times, 72(26), July 1: 1003-5
  • Saunders C. (1976c) Care of the dying – 2. The problem of euthanasia - 2. Nursing Times, 72(27), July 8: 1049-52
  • Saunders C. (1976d) Care of the dying – 3. Should a patient know …? Nursing Times, 72(28), July 15: 1089-91
  • Saunders C. (1976e) Care of the dying – 4. Control of pain in terminal cancer. Nursing Times, 72(29), July 22: 1133-35
  • Saunders C. (1976f) Care of the dying – 5. Mental distress in the dying. Nursing Times, 72(30), July 29: 1172-74
  • Saunders C. (1976g) Care of the dying – 6. The nursing of patients dying of cancer. Nursing Times, 72(31), August 5: 1203-05
  • Saunders C. (1976h) Care of the dying – 7. The last achievement. Nursing Times, 72(32), August 12: 1247-49
  • Saunders C. (1976i) Care of the dying, second edition. London: Macmillan,: 24 pp
  • Saunders C. (1976j) Living with dying. Man and Medicine, 1(3), Spring: 227-42
  • Saunders C. (1976k) Care for the dying. Patient Care, 3(6), June: [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1977a) On dying and dying well [Letter]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 70(4) April: 290-1
  • Saunders C. (1977b) Palliative care for the terminally ill [Letter]. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 117(1) July 9: 15
  • Saunders C. (1977c) A window in your home. In: The Light of Experience. London: British Broadcasting Corporation: 100-05
  • Saunders C. (1977d) Clarifying hospice care and Brompton’s mixture [Letter] Patient Care, Nov 15, 11(19): 166
  • Saunders C, (1978a) Winner A. Questionable dogma. World Medicine, Sept 20: [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1978b) Hospice care. American Journal of Medicine, 65(5) Nov: 726-28
  • Saunders C. (1978c) Dying they live: St Christopher’s Hospice. In Feifel H ed. New Meanings  of Death.. New York: McGraw Hill: 153-79
  • Saunders C. (1978d) ed The Management of Terminal Malignant Disease, 1st edition. London: Edward Arnold: pp 210
  • Saunders C. (1978e) Is death the end? Simple Faith. London: BBC, March 1978: 17pp
  • Saunders C. (1978f) Terminal pain [Manuscript only]
  • Saunders C. (1978g) The need for in-patient care for the patient with terminal cancer. St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School Gazette, 1978  ; 76: 17-23
  • Saunders C. (1978h) Patient care: an introduction. In Vere D W ed. Topics in Therapeutics 4. London: Pitman Medical: 72-4
  • Saunders C. (1979a) The care of the dying. Murmur, Cambridge University Medical Society Magazine,  March: 14-16
  • Saunders C. (1979b) The hospice. In University of the Air Death and Dying, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation: 10-14
  • Saunders C. (1979c) [Watch with me] Kangogaku Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Nursing, 1979  ; 43(6) June: 621-7
  • Saunders C. (1979d) The nature and management of terminal pain and the hospice concept. In Bonica JJ, Ventafridda V eds. Advances in Pain Research, Vol 2. New York: Raven Press: 635-51
  • Saunders C. (1979e) Hospice care. Indian Journal of Cancer, 16(3-4) Dec: 1-4
  • Saunders C.  (1980) Caring to the end. Nursing Mirror, 4 September: [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1981a) Current views on pain relief and terminal care. In Swerdlow M  ed. The Therapy of Pain. Lancaster: MTP Press: 215-41
  • Saunders C. (1981b) Caring to the end. The Way, March: 5
  • Saunders C. (1981c) The hospice: its meaning to patients and their physicians. Hospital Practice, 16(6) June: 93-108
  • Walsh TD, Saunders CM. (1981d) Oral morphine for relief of chronic pain from cancer [Letter]. New England Journal of Medicine, Dec 305: 1417
  • Saunders C. (1981e) Hospices. In Duncan AS, Dunstan GR, Wellbourn RB. Dictionary of Medical Ethics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press: [page numbers]
  • Saunders C, Summers D, Teller N eds.  (1981f) Hospice: the living idea. London: Edward Arnold: pp198
  • Saunders C. (1982) Principles of symptom control in terminal care. Medical Clinics of North America, 66(5) September: 1169-83
  • Saunders C, Baines M. (1983a) Living with Dying: The management of terminal disease, 1st edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press: pp 74
  • Saunders C. (1983b) Beyond All Pain: A companion for the suffering and bereaved. London: SPCK: pp 88
  • Saunders C. (1983c) Living with dying. Radiography, 49(580) April: 79-83
  • Saunders C. (1983d) Terminal Care. In Weatherall DJ, Ledingham JGG, Warrell DA. Oxford Textbook of Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press: [page numbers]
  • Walsh TD, Saunders CM. (1984a) Hospice care: the treatment of pain in advanced cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, (89): 201-211
  • Saunders C. (1984b) The nature and nurture of pain control. World Medicine, 21 Feb: [no page numbers]
  • Saunders C. (1984c) On dying well. Cambridge Review,  27 Feb: 49-52
  • Walsh TD, Saunders CM.  (1984d) Heroin and morphine in advanced cancer [Letter]. The New England Journal of Medicine, March 310(9): 599
  • Saunders C. (1984e) A pioneering approach to the dying (interview by Laurence Dopson), Nursing Times, 80(13), March 28 - Apr 3: 16-18
  • Saunders C. (1984f) Pain and impending death. In Wall R, Melzack R eds. Textbook of Pain. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone: 472-78
  • Saunders C ed. (1984g) The Management of Terminal Malignant Disease, 2nd edition. London: Edward Arnold: pp 252
  • Saunders C. (1984 h) Facing death. The Way, October: 296-304
  • Saunders C. (1984i) Evaluation of hospice activities [Letter]. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 37(11): 871-3
  • Saunders C. (1985a) Foreword. In I Lichter Communication in Cancer Care.  London: Churchill Livingstone (1 page, unnumbered)
  • Saunders C. (1986a) Current views on pain relief and terminal care. In Swerdlow M ed. The Therapy of Pain, 2nd edition. Lancaster: MTP Press: 139-59
  • Saunders C. (1986b) The last refuge. Nursing Times, 82(43), 22 October: 28-30
  • Saunders C, Baines M. (1986c)  La Vie aidant la Mort: Thérapeutiques antalgiques soins palliatifs en phase terminale [translated by Michèle Salamagne]. Paris: Medisi
  • Saunders C. (1986d) The modern hospice. In Wald FS ed. In Quest of the Spiritual Component of Care for the Terminally Ill: Proceedings of a Colloquium. Yale: Yale University School of Nursing: 39-48
  • Saunders C. (1986e) A philosophy of terminal care. In Christie MJ, Mellett PG eds. The Psychosomatic Approach: contemporary practice of whole person care. London: Wiley: 427-36
  • Saunders, C. (1986f) Foreword. In Autton N. Pain: An exploration. London: Darton, Longman and Todd: ix-x
  • Saunders C. (1986g ) Hospice evolution. Nursing Times, 82[vol nos. not known ], 4 October: [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1986h) The nature and nurture of pain control. Editorial, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 1(4) Fall: 199-201
  • Saunders C. (1986i) Sister death. The Tablet, 13 December: 1556
  • Saunders, C. (1986j) “On saying ‘Yes.’” [Reprint of “Sister Death” article (1986i) in pamphlet form] A.G. Bishop and Sons Ltd., Orpington Kent: pp3
  • Saunders C. (1987a) The philosophy of terminal care. Annals of the Academy of Medicine; Singapore, 16(1) Jan: 151-54
  • Saunders C. (1987b) Hospice UK: some basic principles. The Care of the Dying: A comparison of objectives and patterns of delivery in the UK and USA [Papers presented at a national conference, London, January 13, 1987]. University of Keele: Health Services Manpower Review.
  • Saunders C. (1987c) The Modern Hospice. Occasional Paper No. 5, The Churches Council for Health and Healing. London: Churches Council for Health and Healing: pp 6
  • Saunders C. (1987d) Terminal Care. In Weatherall DJ, Ledingham JGG, Warrell DA eds. Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 28.1-13
  • Saunders C. (1987e) What’s in a name? Palliative Medicine, 1(1 ): 57-61
  • Saunders C. (1987f) I was sick and you visited me. Christian Nurse International , 3(4): 4-5. (Published earlier as 1965c, under the title ‘Light at the end of the road’)
  • Saunders C. (1987g) Hospice for AIDS patients. New teams should be developed for AIDS care. American Journal of Hospice Care, 4(6). Nov-Dec: 7-8
  • Saunders C. (1988a) The evolution of the hospices. In Mann RD ed. The History of Pain Management: from early principles to present practice. Carnforth: Parthenon: 167-78
  • Saunders, C. (1988b ) St. Christopher’s in Celebration. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
  • Saunders, C. (1988c ) Spiritual pain. Hospital Chaplain, March, [page nos]
  • Saunders, C. (1988 d) Spiritual pain. Journal of Palliative Care, 4(3) Sept: 29-32.
  • Saunders C. (1989a) L’hospice: un lieu de rencontre pour la science et la religion. In T Vanier Science and Faith, Flammarion: Paris: 263-76
  • Saunders, C. [and M. Baines]. (1989b ) Living with Dying: The management of terminal disease (2nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 76.
  • Saunders, C. [ed] (1990a) Hospice and Palliative Care: An interdisciplinary approach. London: Edward Arnold, pp 120.
  • Saunders, C. (1990b) A weekend at St Christopher’s [check title], Nightingale Fellowship Journal, January, 122: 536-37.
  • Saunders, C. (1990c) Beyond the Horizon. London: Dartman, Longman and Todd, pp99
  • Saunders, C. (1991a) Decision-making in cancer of the head and neck (letter). Palliative Medicine, 5(2): 174-76.
  • Saunders, C (1991b) The hospice way of dying. Free Inquiry, 12: 20
  • O’Brien, T., Kelly, M. and Saunders, C. (1992a) Motor neurone disease: a hospice perspective. British Medical Journal, 304(6825) Feb. 22: 471-3.
  • Saunders, C. (1992b ) Enforced death: enforced life. Letter. Journal of Medical Ethics, 18(1) Mar: 48.
  • Saunders C. (1992c) Entry on Dame Albertine Winner, in Dictionary of National Biography
  • Saunders C. (1992d) Letter [on Alfred Worcester] The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, July/August: 2
  • Saunders, C. (1992e) Euthanasia: definition, dangers, alternatives. Palliative Care Today, Autumn (4): 52-4.
  • Saunders C. (1992f) Kaleidoscope view of hospice future. Information Exchange No 2, Summer: 4
  • Saunders, C. (1992g) Voluntary euthanasia (editorial). Palliative Medicine, 6(1): 1-5
  • Saunders C. (1993a) [in Polish] St Christopher’s Hospice and the origins of the palliative care movement. Nowotwory [page numbers not known]
  • Saunders C. (1993b) Mother Mary Aikenhead, The Irish Sisters of Charity and Our Lady’s Hospice for the Dying. Letter. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. 10(5): 3.
  • Saunders, C. and Sykes, N. (eds) (1993c) The Management of Terminal Malignant Disease (3rd edition). London: Edward Arnold, pp 305.
  • Saunders, C. (1993d) Hospice future. In J. Morgan (ed) Personal Care in an Impersonal world: A multidimensional look at bereavement. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 247-251
  • Saunders, C. (1993e) Some challenges that face us. Palliative Medicine, 7(2) Supplement: 77-83.
  • Saunders C. (1993f) Facing up to legal and ethical dilemmas of euthanasia. [Letter]  The Times: 17
  • Saunders, C. (1993g) Foreword in D. Doyle, G. Hanks and N. MacDonald, The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, v-viii.
  • Saunders, C (1993h) Dame Cicely Saunders: an Omega interview. Omega 27(4): 263-69.
  • Saunders, C. (1994a) Foreword. In I.B. Corless, B.B. Germino and M. Pitman (eds) Dying, Death and Bereavement: Theoretical perspectives and other ways of knowing. Boston and London: Jones and Bartlett, xi-xiv.
  • Saunders, C (1994b) Afterword – the problems of euthanasia. In S Du Boulay Cicely Saunders: The Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement, second edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton: 239-44.
  • Saunders, C.M. (1994c) At the crossroads: which direction for the hospices? [Letter] Palliative Medicine 8(2): 169.
  • Saunders, C. (1994d) Euthanasia - definition, dangers, alternatives. Annals of the Academy of Medicine; Singapore. 23(2) March: 300-3.
  • Saunders, C. (1994e) The ‘medicalization of death’. Letter. European Journal of Cancer Care, 3(4) December: 148.
  • Saunders, C. (1994f) The dying patient. In R. Gillon (ed.) Principles of Health Care Ethics. Chichester: Wiley, 775-782.
  • Saunders, C. (1994/5) Past, present and future hospice and palliative care. History of Nursing Journal, 5: 43-5.
  • Saunders C, Baines M et Dunlop R (1995a) La Vie Aidant La Mort: Thérapeutiques antalgiques et soins palliatifs en phase terminale 2e edition. Translated by Michelle Pradel, Preface to the French edition by Michèle-H  Salamagne. Paris: Arnette Blackwell, pp 80
  • Saunders, C., Baines, M. and Dunlop, R. (1995b) Living with Dying: a guide to palliative care (3rd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 65.
  • Ellershaw, J.E., Sutcliffe, J.M. and Saunders, C. (1995c) Dehydration and the dying patient. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 10(3) April: 192-7.
  • Saunders, C. (1995d) In Britain: fewer conflicts of conscience. Hastings Center Report, 25(3) May-Jun: 44-5.
  • Dunlop, R.J., Ellershaw, J.E., Baines, M.J., Sykes, N. and Saunders, C. (1995e) On withholding nutrition and hydration in the terminally ill: has palliative medicine gone too far? A reply. Journal of Medical Ethics, 21(3) Jun: 141-3.
  • Saunders, C. (1995/96) A response to Logue’s ‘Where hospice fails - the limits of palliative care’. Omega, 32(1): 1-5.
  • Saunders, C. (1996a) A weekend at St Christopher’s, European Journal of Palliative Care, 1(2): 70-71
  • Saunders, C. (1996b) Hospice, Mortality, 1(3): 317-22.
  • Saunders C.M. (1996c) Sustenance for the dying. Letter. Tablet, March 8: 255.
  • Saunders, C. (1996d) A personal therapeutic journey. British Medical Journal 313(7072) Dec. 21-28: 1599-601.
  • Saunders, C (1996e) Foreword. In M. Kearney Mortally Wounded. Dublin: Marino: 11-12.
  • Saunders, C. (1996f) A lifetime of listening. View, 7: 16-20.
  • Saunders, C. and Kastenbaum, R. (eds) (1997) Hospice Care on the International Scene. New York: Springer.
  • Saunders, C. (1998a) Foreword. In R. Dunlop. Cancer: Palliative Care (Focus on Cancer) London: Springer, vii.
  • Saunders, C. (1998b) Why I welcome TV cameras at the death bed. Daily Mail, Friday, 20 March.
  • Saunders, C. (1998c) Foreword. In C. Murray Parkes and A. Markus (eds) Coping with Loss.  London: BMJ Books, viii  .
  • Saunders, C. (1998d) Caring for cancer. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 91, August: 439-41.
  • Saunders, C. (1998e) Foreword. In D. Oliviere, R. Hargreaves, B. Monroe. Good Practices in Palliative Care: A psychosocial perspective. Aldershot: Ashgate, ix-x.
  • Saunders, C (1998f) Foreword. In M. Pratt and M. Wood *(eds) Art Therapy in Palliative Care: The creative response. London: Routledge: vii.
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