{"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\/products\/autism-and-the-empathy-epidemic-by-janet-harbord-9781350345058","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}