Critical Health and Learning Disabilities - An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder

Through an exploration of healthcare, love and intimacy, pregnancy and childbirth, housing, employment, and food the book highlights the enduringly impoverished lives and premature deaths people labelled with learning disabilities experience globally and suggests that such structural violence amounts to social murder.

List of contents

Series editor preface. Chapter 1. 'As natural as the air around us'; the social murder of people labelled with learning disabilities. Chapter 2. Accessing healthcare. Chapter 3. Love and relationships. Chapter 4. Home life, housing, community and employment. Chapter 5. Food and eating. References.

About the author

Sara Ryan is a Professor of Social Care at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Her main research interests are experiences of exclusion and marginalisation, particularly in relation to learning disabilities and autism, and strategies of resistance, activism and advocacy.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Ryan, Ryan Sara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032605005
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260500-5
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Critical Approaches to Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Health psychology, Disability: social aspects, Teaching of a specific subject, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability