Autism and the Empathy Epidemic - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Janet Harbord, Stuart Murray (Editor), Corinne Saunders (Editor)Series:Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health HumanitiesPublish date:10/30/2025Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350345065ISBN-10:1350345067UPC:9781350345065Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Disability, Psychopathology, FilmBook Topic:Autism Spectrum Disorders, History & CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCDSG2ZBSD
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic
Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that the reverse is true: we are living through an empathy epidemic in which autism is the outcast.
In 1908, the British psychologist, Edward...
Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350345065ISBN-10:1350345067UPC:9781350345065Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Disability, Psychopathology, FilmBook Topic:Autism Spectrum Disorders, History & CriticismSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCDSG2ZBSD
Janet Harbord is Professor of Film at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has written on film archaeology, minor cinemas and the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. She is co-principal investigator of Autism through Cinema, supported by Wellcome.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Janet Harbord, Stuart Murray (Editor), Corinne Saunders (Editor)
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