Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]©2018

Sheffer, Edith. author.

01-01-2018

317 pages ; 25 cm

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volume

616.85882 SHE (Copy 1) MAIN-MONO 315824 INLIBRARY

Autism spectrum disorders

Medical profession

Nazism

Austria

Overseas item

Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- Diagnosis -- 20th century.

Asperger's syndrome in children -- Patients -- Austria -- Vienna -- History.

Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 1930-1940.

Asperger, Hans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780393609646

Presents an exploration of the sobering history behind Asperger's Syndrome that reveals child psychiatrist Hans Asperger's influence by Nazi psychiatry and his use of one of the Reich's deadliest killing centers to experiment on disabled children.

Chapter 1. Enter the experts -- Chapter 2. The clinic's diagnosis -- Chapter 3. Nazi psychiatry & social spirit -- Chapter 4. Indexing lives -- Chapter 5. Fatal theories -- Chapter 6. Asperger & the killing system -- Chapter 7. Girls & boys -- Chapter 8. The daily life of death -- Chapter 9. In service to the volk -- Chapter 10. Reckoning.

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