Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.
Contents:
10. References. One no longer dies at home -- Questions of social importance -- Professional contexts in focus -- Methodologial considerations -- Locating the study within a broader field -- An Existential-psychosocial approach -- References -- 2. The narrative subject -- A Theoretical positioning -- Merging theoretical perspectives -- Self -- A theorist's fiction? -- Narrative self -- Constructed or embedded? -- Narrative self and experiential self -- Mandatory basic conditions -- The psychophysical problem -- A question of semantics -- A psychosocial response -- Hermeneutics of suspicion -- And a critique -- References -- 3. Research beneath the surface -- A Methodological Positioning -- The art of living with "wicked questions" -- A biographical narrative approach -- A position of not-knowing -- Analysis: from data to a thin sense of subjectivity -- The particular and the general -- Choosing four star cases -- Ethics and validity -- A reader's map for the star cases -- References -- 4. Jacob -- Lived life and told story -- Detailed reading of the narrative -- A thin sense of the situated subjectivity -- Reference -- 5. Eric -- Lived life and told story -- Detailed reading of the narrative -- A thin sense of the situated subjectivity -- 6. Karla -- Lived life and told story -- Detailed reading of the narrative -- A thin sense of the situated subjectivity -- 7. Dina -- Lived life and told story -- Detailed reading of the narrative -- A thin sense of the situated subjectivity -- 8. To be or not to be -- An outline of existential concerns -- Introduction -- To be or not to be fearful of death -- To be or not to be a truth-teller -- To be or not to be guilty -- To be or not to be a part or apart -- To be or not to be personal in the professional -- Final remarks -- References -- 9. An existential-psychosocial reading -- Introduction -- First concern -- Fear of death -- Second concern -- Angst -- Third concern -- Authenticity -- Fourth concern -- Guilt -- Fifth concern -- The good object -- References -- 10. Implications for research and future practice -- A call to recognize the existentially concerned professional -- A need for habitable professional "worlds" -- Polyphony rather than monologism -- Humanization through narration -- References.
Summary:
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.
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