Asperger's Children The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
by Sheffer, Edith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0393609642
- ISBN 13
- 9780393609646
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
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 Hitlers 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 Reichs 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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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19181
- Title
- Asperger's Children The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
- Author
- Sheffer, Edith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393609642
- ISBN 13
- 9780393609646
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- 0393609642, autism, asperger, Germany, nazi, vienna
- Bookseller catalogs
- Militaria; PSYCHOLOGY; Militaria / WWII;
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