Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

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,...

Medical Humanities and Disability Studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability. However, to date, there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from different heritages, they share many features, such as discussing the complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion, championing...