Margaret Holloway is Professor of Social Work at the University of Hull.

"This is a major exploration of conversations about death and loss between the social sciences, helping professions, and recent religious and spirituality discourses. The insights from these areas are used to explore meanings of death in two increasingly uncertain worlds - professional practice and Late Modernity. A book of enduring value for both academics and practitioners." Allan Kellehear, Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.

• Death in late modernity; Contemporary health and social care; Understanding death and dying; Understanding bereavement and grief; The ways in which people die; Dying in the twenty-first century; Dying and bereavement in old age; The aftermath of death; Integrating theories and practices

Margaret Holloway is Professor of Social Work at the University of Hull.

"This is a major exploration of conversations about death and loss between the social sciences, helping professions, and recent religious and spirituality discourses. The insights from these areas are used to explore meanings of death in two increasingly uncertain worlds - professional practice and Late Modernity. A book of enduring value for both academics and practitioners." Allan Kellehear, Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.

• Death in late modernity; Contemporary health and social care; Understanding death and dying; Understanding bereavement and grief; The ways in which people die; Dying in the twenty-first century; Dying and bereavement in old age; The aftermath of death; Integrating theories and practices

Margaret Holloway is Professor of Social Work at the University of Hull.

"This is a major exploration of conversations about death and loss between the social sciences, helping professions, and recent religious and spirituality discourses. The insights from these areas are used to explore meanings of death in two increasingly uncertain worlds - professional practice and Late Modernity. A book of enduring value for both academics and practitioners." Allan Kellehear, Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.

• Death in late modernity; Contemporary health and social care; Understanding death and dying; Understanding bereavement and grief; The ways in which people die; Dying in the twenty-first century; Dying and bereavement in old age; The aftermath of death; Integrating theories and practices