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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341288 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Author: Edith Sheffer
Narrator: Christa Lewis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Release date: July 3, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate and devoted researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he did offer individualized care to children he deemed promising, he also prescribed harsh institutionalization and even transfer to Spiegelgrund, one of the Reich's deadliest killing centers, for children with greater disabilities, who, he held, could not integrate into the community. With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer's scrupulous research reveals the heartbreaking voices and experiences of many of these children, while also illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloging people by race, heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality, and biological defects?labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or persecution and extermination.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341288 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Author: Edith Sheffer
Narrator: Christa Lewis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Release date: July 3, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate and devoted researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he did offer individualized care to children he deemed promising, he also prescribed harsh institutionalization and even transfer to Spiegelgrund, one of the Reich's deadliest killing centers, for children with greater disabilities, who, he held, could not integrate into the community. With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer's scrupulous research reveals the heartbreaking voices and experiences of many of these children, while also illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloging people by race, heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality, and biological defects?labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or persecution and extermination.