Saunders refused to recognize this enterprise as pitted “against” cancer. “The provision of . . . terminal care580,” she wrote, “should not be thought of as a separate and essentially negative part of the attack on cancer. This is not merely the phase of defeat, hard to contemplate and unrewarding to carry out. In many ways its principles are fundamentally the same as those which underlie all other stages of care and treatment, although its rewards are different.” This, too, then, was knowing the enemy.
