Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder. By SaraRyan, Routledge, 2026. 117 pp. £31.99 (PBK). (161 including back matter). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐260500‐5 (PBK).

Early in this powerful book, Sara Ryan lays out her central theme, which is shocking in its stark simplicity.People with learning disabilities are subject to structural violence, a form of socially applied violence which is unregistered, invisible, unnoticed and natural.Its very naturalness enables it to be sustained in full social view, but somehow unremarked upon or even noticed, in all parts of a person's life.It occasionally gets acknowledged when episodes of institutional violence or hate crimes are exposed, but otherwise is remarkable only for the communal perception that it is unremarkable.