The Horrifying History of Hans Asperger
Jill Escher is an autism research philanthropist, president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area, autism housing provider, and mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism. Several of […]
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The Invention of Autism In the Midst of Nazism
By Claudia Mazzucco In 1942, the world was a hellish place when Austrian pediatrician Dr. Hans Asperger submitted to Vienna University his postdoctoral thesis (published two years later). Adolf Hitler […]
The Nazi History Behind Asperger
The following paragraphs were taken from an opinion piece recently published in the New York Times by Edith Sheffer (Sunday Review, March 31, 2018). Ms. Sheffer is a senior fellow […]
John Elder Robison and Georg Frankl: A Third Man at the Genesis of the Autism Diagnosis
Recently I had the opportunity to read an article by John Elder Robison. The same was titled, “Kanner, Asperger, and Frankl: A Third Man at the Genesis of the Autism […]
James Harris habla sobre los libros “Neurotribes” y “En un Tono Diferente”
Recientemente Jim Harris escribió una revisión crítica de dos libros los cuales tratan sobre la historia del autismo (JAACAP 55 [8]: 729-733, 2016). Uno de los libros reseñados fue Neurotribes […]
James Harris Discusses the Books Neurotribes and In a Different Key
Recently Jim Harris wrote a critical review of two published books dealing with the history of autism (JAACAP 55[8]:729-733, 2016). One of the books reviewed was Neurotribes written by […]
Una coincidencia historica entre el régimen nazi y el autismo
Es claro a estas alturas que Hans Asperger fue responsable de la muerte de muchos niños durante la ocupación del régimen nazi en Austria. La persona que descubrió esta conexión […]
The Early Nazi History of Autism
It is by now clear that Asperger partook a role in the Nazi regime and was responsible for the death of many children. The person who discovered the connection and […]
On Silberman, Austria and on Re-Writing the History of Autism
It is striking that in today’s society the killing of handicapped individuals is condoned and that reverberations of euthanasia as so-called “mercy killings” can be used to justify such measures. […]
Una clave diferente: la historia del autismo
Hace una semana recibí el libro de Donvan y Zucker entitulado”Una Clave Diferente”. El libro detalla algunos aspectos sobre la historia del autismo. Esta es la edición de cobertura dura […]
