This book explores how, in encounters with the terminally ill and dying,
there is something existentially at stake for the professional, not only
the patient. It connects the professional and personal lives of the
interviewees, a range of professionals working in palliative and
intensive care. Kjetil Moen discusses how the inner and outer worlds,
the psychic and the social, and the existential and the cultural, all
inform professionals' experience of work at the boundary between life
and death. Death at Work is written for an academic audience, but is
accessible to and offers insights for practitioners in a variety of
fields.