Book ID: CBB845681471

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (2020)

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Sheffer, Edith (Author)


W. W. Norton & Co.


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

“An impassioned indictment, one that glows with the heat of a prosecution motivated by an ethical imperative.” ―Lisa Appignanesi, New York Review of BooksIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across Europe during World War Two, it sorted people according to race, religion, behavior, and physical condition. Nazi psychiatrists targeted children with different kinds of minds―especially those thought to lack social skills―claiming the Reich had no place for them. Hans Asperger and his colleagues endeavored to mold certain “autistic” children into productive citizens, while transferring others to Spiegelgrund, one of the Reich’s deadliest child killing centers. In this unflinching history, Sheffer exposes Asperger’s complicity in the murderous policies of the Third Reich. 15 illustrations

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Authors & Contributors
Zeidman, Lawrence A.
Weindling, Paul J.
Müller, Thomas
Whiteside, Shaun
Moll, Friedrich
Sammer, Christian
Concepts
Nazism
Medicine and ethics
World War II
Psychiatry
Eugenics
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Württemberg (Germany)
United States
Norway
Italy
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
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