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Asperger'S Shadow: Re-Evaluating A Troubled Legacy

Asperger'S Shadow: Re-Evaluating A Troubled Legacy

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Young Adult Nonfiction

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ISBN13: 9798170135424
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.23 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
In the shadow of a name synonymous with autism, lies a history far darker and more complex than commonly understood. Asperger'S Shadow: Re-Evaluating A Troubled Legacy plunges into the chilling reality of 1930s and 40s Vienna, where Hans Asperger's groundbreaking work intersected with the Nazi regime's horrifying eugenics programs. This book confronts the uncomfortable truth that the very foundations of our understanding of neurodiversity are rooted in a period when medical science was grotesquely perverted, and human worth was systematically re-evaluated based on ideological decrees. It asks: what was the true cost of survival in a world where diagnosis could mean a death sentence?

This meticulously researched book unearths the moral quagmire Asperger navigated, where medical evaluations determined life or death for vulnerable children. It reveals how the Hippocratic Oath was systematically inverted, transforming healing into a tool for state-sanctioned murder, and how the concept of racial hygiene permeated every aspect of medical practice. The narrative confronts the uncomfortable truth of a pediatrician whose clinical reports could funnel children into notorious euthanasia centers like Am Spiegelgrund. Was he a rescuer, shrewdly protecting some by highlighting their originality of thought and potential for specialized skills, or was he complicit, making compromises that stained his legacy and contributed to unspeakable atrocities? Asperger'S Shadow delves into:

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