{"title":"Janet Harbord","description":"\u003cp\u003eJanet Harbord’s work delves into nuanced perspectives on autism, offering thoughtful analysis that challenges common assumptions. Her writing combines empathy with critical insight, making complex ideas accessible to both professionals and curious readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e category, Harbord’s books encourage deeper understanding of social and emotional dimensions, inviting readers to reconsider the narratives surrounding neurodiversity and contemporary cultural trends.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"autism-and-the-empathy-epidemic-by-janet-harbord-9781350345058","title":"Autism and the Empathy Epidemic","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThreading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1908, the British psychologist, Edward Titchener, translated the German term \u003ci\u003eEinfühlung\u003c\/i\u003e into the English language as ‘empathy’, around the same time that Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘autism’ for a group of symptoms subset to an emerging classification of schizophrenia. Empathy became a useful tool to describe relations between people in a clinical context, but in the process of its incorporation into psychology, it shed its rich sensory meaning from \u003ci\u003eEinfühlung\u003c\/i\u003e as ‘feeling-into’ weather systems, architectural forms, and artworks. A remarkable reversal takes place in the first part of the twentieth century whereby empathy becomes an intra-human ethical act, and autism emerges as its inverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDigging up and examining the buried relation between autism with an earlier form of ‘empathy’, \u003ci\u003eAutism and the Empathy Epidemic\u003c\/i\u003e argues that autism, like cinema, models an ethical apprehension of the more-than-human world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462629310700,"sku":"9781350345058","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350345058-autism-and-the-empathy-epidemic.jpg?v=1775018734"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/janet-harbord.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}