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Asperger's Children
The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Buch von Edith Sheffer
Sprache: Englisch

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In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he offered care to children he deemed promising, he prescribed harsh institutionalisation and even transfer to one of the Reich's killing centres, for children with greater disabilities.

With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer reveals the heart-breaking voices and experiences of many of these children, whilst illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloguing people by race, heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality and biological defects-labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or persecution and extermination.

In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he offered care to children he deemed promising, he prescribed harsh institutionalisation and even transfer to one of the Reich's killing centres, for children with greater disabilities.

With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer reveals the heart-breaking voices and experiences of many of these children, whilst illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloguing people by race, heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality and biological defects-labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or persecution and extermination.

Über den Autor
Edith Sheffer is a historian of Germany and central Europe, and a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the prize-winning Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 320 S.
15 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9780393609646
ISBN-10: 0393609642
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 60964
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Sheffer, Edith
Hersteller: WW Norton & Co
Maße: 245 x 167 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Edith Sheffer
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,603 kg
Artikel-ID: 109772212
Über den Autor
Edith Sheffer is a historian of Germany and central Europe, and a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the prize-winning Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 320 S.
15 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9780393609646
ISBN-10: 0393609642
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 60964
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Sheffer, Edith
Hersteller: WW Norton & Co
Maße: 245 x 167 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Edith Sheffer
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,603 kg
Artikel-ID: 109772212
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