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Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393609646 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Enter the experts -- The clinic's diagnosis -- Nazi psychiatry and social spirit -- Indexing lives -- Fatal theories -- Asperger and the killing system -- Girls and boys -- The daily life of death -- In service to the volk -- Reckoning. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 618.9285883200943613 She | 31681010318970 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
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. - Baker & Taylor
The prizewinning author ofBurned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain 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. - WW Norton
Shortlisted for the 2019 Mark Lynton History PrizeA groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis. - WW Norton
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 Hitlerâs Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children.As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across Europe during World War Two, it sorted people according to race, religion, behavior, and physical condition for either treatment or elimination. Nazi psychiatrists targeted children with different kinds of mindsâespecially those thought to lack social skillsâclaiming the Reich had no place for them. Asperger and his colleagues endeavored to mold certain "autistic" children into productive citizens, while transferring others they deemed untreatable to Spiegelgrund, one of the Reichâs deadliest child-killing centers.Aspergerâs Children
