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Title Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.
Publisher New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Description 317 pages : illustrations, photographs (black and white) ; 25 cm
Edition First Edition.


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 SH-Adult-Main Level  618.9285 SHE Nearby on shelf  30652005161775 06-22-21  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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. In the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. --Adapted from publisher description.
Subject Asperger, Hans.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Patients -- Austria -- Vienna -- History.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- Diagnosis -- History -- 20th century.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 1930-1940.
Autism spectrum disorders -- History.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Medical ethics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
People with disabilities -- Nazi persecution.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Other title Origins of autism in Nazi Vienna
ISBN 9780393609646