Gitte Koksvik

Gitte Koksvik

Researcher

Koksvik is a researcher in the Programme for Applied Ethics at the Deparmtent of philosophy and religious studies at NTNU. Her background is in philosophy (MA) and social anthropology (PhD) and has conducted research on different issues pertaining to highly technological hospital settings, end of life, and dying. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in adult intensive care, writing about personhood, dignity, withholding and withdrawing treatment, and dying. Koksvik has also collaborated on projects about the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying, the global transfer and translation of the Death Café phenomenon, and community palliative care in Kerala India. She is actively involved in research ethics in anthropology and in medical- and healthcare research. Her current research centres on the social organisation of end of life in municipal nursing homes.