TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheffer,Edith
TI  - Asperger's children: the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna 
SN  - 9780393609646
PY  - 2018///
KW  - Asperger, Hans,
KW  - ASPERGER SYNDROME
KW  - CHILDREN
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - EUGENICS
KW  - AUSTRIA
KW  - WAR CRIMES
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -