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Sheffer, Edith, author.
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Asperger, Hans.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Patients -- Austria -- Vienna -- History.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- Diagnosis -- 20th century.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century.
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Asperger's children [large type] : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.
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Sheffer, Edith, author.
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2018.
Subjects
Asperger, Hans.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Patients -- Austria -- Vienna -- History.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- Diagnosis -- 20th century.
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century.
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9781683249467 (large print : hardcover ; alk. paper)
1683249461 (large print : hardcover ; alk. paper)
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511 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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 life of death -- Chapter 9-In service to the Volk -- Chapter 10-Reckoning -- Epilogue.
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"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"--Provided by publisher.
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