Critical Health and Learning Disabilities by Sara Ryan - 9781032644844

Critical Health and Learning DisabilitiesAn Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder\nAuthor(s): Sara Ryan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032644844, 978-1032644844\nSynopsis\nThis empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. 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.\n\nThrough the lens of critical disability studies, the book links the debates around learning disabilities to the larger framework of deinstitutionalisation. It takes a closer look at the label learning disability, which remains associated wit.