Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna /
Sheffer, Edith
Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer. - First edition. - 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
9780393609646
0393609642
Asperger, Hans, 1906-1980
ASPERGER SYNDROME
CHILDREN
HISTORY
EUGENICS
AUSTRIA
WAR CRIMES
Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer. - First edition. - 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
9780393609646
0393609642
Asperger, Hans, 1906-1980
ASPERGER SYNDROME
CHILDREN
HISTORY
EUGENICS
AUSTRIA
WAR CRIMES