This article draws upon the emotion at work literature to explore how workers manage their
feelings in dealing with death as a routine part of their working lives. It focuses on a specific …

How people respond at work may have a critical part to play in how bereaved or terminally ill
colleagues manage their grief and their lives. Although counselors, human resources …

Aims and objectives. This paper explores how emergency nurses manage the emotional
impact of death and dying in emergency work and presents a model for developing …

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 …

Within sociological and organisational literature much attention has been paid to the
emotional labour and emotion work performed by care staff. By contrast, comparatively little …

The paid provision of care for dying persons and their families blends commodified emotion
work and attachments to two often-conflicting role identities: the caring person and the …

The lived experience of returning to work after a bereavement remains relatively under
researched. Within sociology, the notion of emotional labour has been explored at length …

As helping professionals working in end-of-life care, we are deeply affected by loss in our
personal as well as professional lives. In fact, many of us have chosen to work in end-of-life …

There is no part of human existence that loss and grief do not reach, and the workplace is no
exception to this. This article is therefore concerned with some of the implications of loss and …

This article describes the social representations of death held by two groups of nurses in a
hospice setting. Focus group interviews, one with White British nurses and the other with …