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

Sheffer, Edith (Author)

W. W. Norton & Co.
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

ISBN: 9780393357790

Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 320

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Psychiatry Medicine and ethics Eugenics World War II Nazism Asperger syndrome Autism 20th century, early Germany Asperger, Hans

“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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Review Gregory Hollin (2020) Review of "Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience". History of the Human Sciences (pp. 167-178). unapi

Review Annemieke Van Drenth (2019) Review of "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 169-170). unapi

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