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Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.
Van Pelt Library RJ506.A9 S5257 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheffer, Edith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asperger, Hans.
- Vienna.
- Asperger's syndrome in children--Patients--Austria--Vienna--History.
- Asperger's syndrome in children.
- Asperger's syndrome in children--Diagnosis--Austria--Vienna--20th century.
- Asperger's syndrome in children--Diagnosis.
- History.
- Patients.
- Austria--Vienna.
- Asperger's syndrome in children--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.
- Asperger Syndrome--history.
- Austria.
- Medical Subjects:
- Asperger Syndrome--history.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393609646
- 0393609642
- OCLC:
- 1005104504
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