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Asperger's Children The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Asperger's Children The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna Hardcover - 2018

by Sheffer, Edith

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New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393609642 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 9.5 X 6.6 X 1.3 inches; 317 pages; "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 Hitler’s 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 minds, especially those thought to lack social skills, claiming 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 Reich’s deadliest child-killing centers. In the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich." .
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  • Title Asperger's Children The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
  • Author Sheffer, Edith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 2018
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 19181
  • ISBN 9780393609646 / 0393609642
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.1 in (23.88 x 16.26 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Asperger's syndrome in children - Patients -, Asperger's syndrome in children - Diagnosis
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018003422
  • Dewey Decimal Code 618.928

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