Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.

  • Sheffer, Edith
Date:
2018
  • Books

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Also known as

Origins of autism in Nazi Vienna

Description

"In 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"--Back cover.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Physical description

317 pages ; 21 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Chapter 1. Enter the experts -- Chapter 2. The clinic's diagnosis -- Chapter 3. Nazi psychiatry and social spirit -- Chapter 4. Indexing lives --Chapter 5. Fatal theories -- Chapter 6. Asperger and the killing system -- Chapter 7. Girls and boys -- Chapter 8. The daily death of life of death -- Chapter 9. In service on the Volk -- Chapter 10. Reckoning - Acknowledgments --Abbreviations -- Notes -- Illustration credits

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    History of Medicine
    PV.AW.385
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0393609642
  • 9780393609646