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Kastenbaum, Robert – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1993
Presents interview with Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of international hospice care movement. Saunders describes her background and experiences that led her to form the hospice movement and discusses the need for pain control for terminally ill patients. Saunders also notes her opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. (NB)
Descriptors: Cancer, Death, Helping Relationship, Hospices (Terminal Care)

Hart, Kay – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1987
Attempts to identify and describe perceived stress and coping responses of family and nonfamily significant others of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Significant others were asked to identify stressful events related to treatment factors, relationship factors, and perception of the patient's condition. Coping responses were categorized in…
Descriptors: Cancer, Coping, Drug Therapy, Family Relationship