Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.
By: Sheffer, Edith.
Copyright date: 2018Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018Edition: First edition.Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393609646.Subject(s): Asperger, Hans, 1906-1980 Asperger, Johann Karl | ASPERGER SYNDROME | CHILDREN | HISTORY | EUGENICS | AUSTRIA | WAR CRIMESItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | IHC Library | Main Collection | 720 SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | W0011678 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-301) and index.
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.
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.
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