Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Edith Sheffer

320 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across E...

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