Overview
- Summary
- Presents an exploration of the sobering history behind Asperger's Syndrome that reveals child psychiatrist Hans Asperger's influence by Nazi psychiatry and his use of one of the Reich's deadliest killing centers to experiment on disabled children.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
©2018 - Locale
- Austria
Vienna - Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Chapter 1. Enter the experts
Chapter 2. The clinic's diagnosis
Chapter 3. Nazi psychiatry & social spirit
Chapter 4. Indexing lives
Chapter 5. Fatal theories
Chapter 6. Asperger & the killing system
Chapter 7. Girls & boys
Chapter 8. The daily life of death
Chapter 9. In service to the volk
Chapter 10. Reckoning. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Enter the experts -- Chapter 2. The clinic's diagnosis -- Chapter 3. Nazi psychiatry & social spirit -- Chapter 4. Indexing lives -- Chapter 5. Fatal theories -- Chapter 6. Asperger & the killing system -- Chapter 7. Girls & boys -- Chapter 8. The daily life of death -- Chapter 9. In service to the volk -- Chapter 10. Reckoning.
Text in English.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393609646
0393609642 - Physical Description
- 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Asperger's syndrome in children--Patients--Austria--Vienna--History. Asperger's syndrome in children--Diagnosis--Austria--Vienna--20th century. Asperger's syndrome in children--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century. MEDICAL / Pediatrics. Asperger Syndrome--history. Nonfiction. Asperger, Hans.
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