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Language
English
Description
"Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler's Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Examines the work of Hans Asperger, a child psychiatrist working in Vienna during the regime of the Nazis, who, while offering compassionate institutional care for children diagnosed with autism whom he deemed promising, prescribed harsh measures for those he felt suffered too severely from the condition and whom he believed could not be integrated into society.
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