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

by Sara Ryan (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.