Dr Gitte Koksvik

  • Affiliate (School of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Biography

I have an MA in philosophy (specialization in health and culture) from Universite Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France and a PhD in social anthropology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. My doctoral dissertation was on the topic of clinical-ethical and existential issues in intensive care, with particular focus on personhood, dignity-in-practice, and the making of a good death in this high-tech, critical context.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University Of Glasgow in the End Of Life Studies Group, working on the Wellcome Trust Project “Global Challenges at the End of Life”. I am moreover involved in the GCRF funded study “Assessing Quality and Outcomes in a Community Form of Palliative Care Delivery in Kerala, India”.

Research interests

  • End of life
  • Social constructions and representations of death and dying
  • Medicalisation
  • Intensive care
  • Ethnographic research
  • Affect and emotion in research
  • Research ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Non-treatment decisions
  • Personhood

Publications

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Number of items: 16.

2022

Hanssen Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Gerson, S. M., Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2022) Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: the interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying. Health, 26(4), pp. 512-531. (doi: 10.1177/1363459320976746) (PMID:33307828) (PMCID:PMC9163770)

2021

Koksvik, G. H. and Richards, N. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality, (doi: 10.1080/13576275.2021.1918655) (Early Online Publication)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G. H., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2021) Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Quebec. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 10(3), pp. 3528-3539. (doi: 10.21037/apm-20-632) (PMID:33302637)

2020

Koksvik, G. (2020) Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: examples from Quebec. Wellcome Open Research, 5, 227. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16306.2) (PMID:33954264) (PMCID:PMC8063540)

Koksvik, G. (2020) Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(6), pp. 951-967. (doi: 10.1177/1367877920924426)

Richards, N. , Koksvik, G. H., Gerson, S. M. and Clark, D. (2020) The global spread of death café: a cultural intervention relevant to policy? Social Policy and Society, 19(4), pp. 553-572. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746420000081)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2020) The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 59(6), 1287-1303.e1. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.12.361) (PMID:31881289)

2018

Skjølsvold, T. M., Throndsen, W., Ryghaug, M., Fjellså, I. F. and Koksvik, G. H. (2018) Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: new empirical and conceptual insights. Energy Research and Social Science, 46, pp. 252-261. (doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.07.035)

Biresselioglu, M. E., Nilsen, M., Demir, M. H., Røyrvik, J. and Koksvik, G. (2018) Examining the barriers and motivators affecting European decision-makers in the development of smart and green energy technologies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, pp. 417-429. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.308)

Koksvik, G. H. (2018) Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred. Implicit Religion, 20(2), pp. 167-186. (doi: 10.1558/imre.34379)

Koksvik, G. H. (2018) Medically timed death as an enactment of good death: an ethnographic study of three European intensive care units. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, (doi: 10.1177/0030222818756555) (PMID:29402160)

2017

Biresselioglu, M. E. et al. (2017) Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings – A Comprehensive Literature Review. Documentation. Echoes.

Koksvik, G. (2017) Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død = Freedom from suffering, individual autonomy, and dying as a work of art: notes towards an anthropology of assisted dying. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 28(3-4), pp. 236-249. (doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2017-03-04-06)

Koksvik, G. (2017) Verdighet i praksis. Objektivering og subjektivering på intensivavdelingen = Dignity in practice. Objectivation and subjectiation in the intensive care unit. In: Røyrvik, E.A. and Larseon, T. (eds.) Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis. Scandinavian Academic Press: Oslo. ISBN 9788230402139

2016

Koksvik, G. H. (2016) Silent subjects, loud diseases: enactment of personhood in intensive care. Health, 20(2), pp. 127-142. (doi: 10.1177/1363459314567792) (PMID:25627696)

2015

Koksvik, G. H. (2015) Dignity in practice: day-to-day life in intensive care units in Western Europe. Medical Anthropology, 34(6), pp. 517-532. (doi: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1037391) (PMID:26106928)

This list was generated on Sat Jun 10 03:53:15 2023 BST.
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Number of items: 16.

Articles

Hanssen Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Gerson, S. M., Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2022) Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: the interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying. Health, 26(4), pp. 512-531. (doi: 10.1177/1363459320976746) (PMID:33307828) (PMCID:PMC9163770)

Koksvik, G. H. and Richards, N. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality, (doi: 10.1080/13576275.2021.1918655) (Early Online Publication)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G. H., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2021) Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Quebec. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 10(3), pp. 3528-3539. (doi: 10.21037/apm-20-632) (PMID:33302637)

Koksvik, G. (2020) Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: examples from Quebec. Wellcome Open Research, 5, 227. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16306.2) (PMID:33954264) (PMCID:PMC8063540)

Koksvik, G. (2020) Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(6), pp. 951-967. (doi: 10.1177/1367877920924426)

Richards, N. , Koksvik, G. H., Gerson, S. M. and Clark, D. (2020) The global spread of death café: a cultural intervention relevant to policy? Social Policy and Society, 19(4), pp. 553-572. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746420000081)

Gerson, S. M., Koksvik, G., Richards, N. , Materstvedt, L. J. and Clark, D. (2020) The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 59(6), 1287-1303.e1. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.12.361) (PMID:31881289)

Skjølsvold, T. M., Throndsen, W., Ryghaug, M., Fjellså, I. F. and Koksvik, G. H. (2018) Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: new empirical and conceptual insights. Energy Research and Social Science, 46, pp. 252-261. (doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.07.035)

Biresselioglu, M. E., Nilsen, M., Demir, M. H., Røyrvik, J. and Koksvik, G. (2018) Examining the barriers and motivators affecting European decision-makers in the development of smart and green energy technologies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, pp. 417-429. (doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.308)

Koksvik, G. H. (2018) Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred. Implicit Religion, 20(2), pp. 167-186. (doi: 10.1558/imre.34379)

Koksvik, G. H. (2018) Medically timed death as an enactment of good death: an ethnographic study of three European intensive care units. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, (doi: 10.1177/0030222818756555) (PMID:29402160)

Koksvik, G. (2017) Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død = Freedom from suffering, individual autonomy, and dying as a work of art: notes towards an anthropology of assisted dying. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 28(3-4), pp. 236-249. (doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2017-03-04-06)

Koksvik, G. H. (2016) Silent subjects, loud diseases: enactment of personhood in intensive care. Health, 20(2), pp. 127-142. (doi: 10.1177/1363459314567792) (PMID:25627696)

Koksvik, G. H. (2015) Dignity in practice: day-to-day life in intensive care units in Western Europe. Medical Anthropology, 34(6), pp. 517-532. (doi: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1037391) (PMID:26106928)

Book Sections

Koksvik, G. (2017) Verdighet i praksis. Objektivering og subjektivering på intensivavdelingen = Dignity in practice. Objectivation and subjectiation in the intensive care unit. In: Røyrvik, E.A. and Larseon, T. (eds.) Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis. Scandinavian Academic Press: Oslo. ISBN 9788230402139

Research Reports or Papers

Biresselioglu, M. E. et al. (2017) Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings – A Comprehensive Literature Review. Documentation. Echoes.

This list was generated on Sat Jun 10 03:53:15 2023 BST.

Additional information

I am a member of the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group


I contribute to the End of Life Studies blog


Dr Gitte Koksvik