Embedded in film studies and neurodiversity scholarship, 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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Author(s): Janet (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Harbord
Number of pages: 136
Collection: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities