'Kjetil Moen has written a book of depth, insight and significance. It is thrill to read. He writes of a world of paradoxes and contradictions, continual absurd realities and great sadness. Here is a book for a world-wide audience that is looking for direction as the human family experiences more aging.' - Thomas M. Skovholt, Professor and Psychologist, University of Minnesota, USA, author of The Resilient Practitioner 'A powerful, searing yet encouraging book. Vivid case studies bring to life the dilemmas and decision moments in which end-of-life professionals live. Moen combines methodological clarity, detail and philosophic reflection: it concerns us all.

' - Tom Wengraf, previously Middlesex University and Birkbeck Institute of Social Research, UK, author of Qualitative Research Interviewing This important book shines a long-overdue spotlight on the call for a reflective space and self-knowledge of the professional working in end-of-life care. and make[s] an empirically and clinically sound call for re-humanization of the way we relate to the dying person. - Gry Stålsett, PhD, Specialist Psychologist, Modum Bad Clinic, Vikersund, Norway 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. With depth and perceptiveness, Kjetil Moen connects the professional and personal lives of his interviewees, professionals working in palliative and intensive care, and discusses how the inner and outer, the psychic and the social, the existential and the cultural all inform professionals' experience of work at the boundary between life and death. Death at Work gives a rare step by step explanation of how formulations are derived from data. It invites readers to consider the links between the philosophy that underpins the book, the methodology and the interpretations made by the author himself.