About Cicely Saunders
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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Awards & Honors
Order of Merit
Templeton Prize
Ernst von Bergmann Plaque
Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association
Viktor Frankl Award
honorary doctorate
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Worship
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Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London
Elizabeth Blackwell Award
Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing
Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize
honorary doctor of the University of Bath
honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
