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Author Sheffer, Edith, author.

Title Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.

Publication Info. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP 618.9285 SHEFFER    Check Shelf
Edition Center point large print edition.
Description 511 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note Regular print version previously published by: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "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.
Subject Asperger, Hans.
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.
Large type books.
Asperger's syndrome in children. (OCoLC)fst01738529
Asperger's syndrome in children -- Diagnosis. (OCoLC)fst01765571
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Austria -- Vienna. (OCoLC)fst01204516
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781683249467 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1683249461 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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