Edith Sheffer @edithsheffer
#historian, #author, #educator and senior fellow at @UCBerkeleyIES . Asperger's Children book is available at https://t.co/0Bb2JpbrXj edithsheffer.com Palo Alto, CA Joined July 2015-
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"How historian Edith Sheffer unmasked the monster who identified Asperger's" Read full interview here: bit.ly/2QGTtcV via @nzlistener #AspergersChildren #HansAsperger
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What’s in a name? The Nazi taint in Aspergers syndrome: mercatornet.com/features/view/… @mercatornet @edithsheffer #history #WWII #medicine #healthcare
Thank you, Terry and @wienerlibrary for reviewing #AspergersChildren! Read full review here: bit.ly/2OcHvJK
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Thank you to our amazing speakers, moderator, and faculty organizer for making yesterday's #AspergersNaziScience event such a success. L to R: Herwig Czech (University of Vienna), @venisewagner (SFSU, Journalism), Kitty Millet (SFSU, Jewish Studies), @edithsheffer (UC Berkeley)
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.@edithsheffer: We're in a moment of reexamining who we name things after. We must stop using Asperger's name to honor his victims and to better understand the many forms of autism #AspergersNaziScience
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Dr. @edithsheffer in @nytimes 3/31/18: "We should stop saying 'Asperger.' It’s one way to honor the children killed in his name as well as those still labeled with it." Learn more this Thursday 10/4, 3:30pm, McKenna Theater, #SFSU: jewish.sfsu.edu/news-announce/… nytimes.com/2018/03/31/opi…
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Was #autism a Nazi invention? Dr. Herwig Czech of @MedUni_Vienna and Dr. @edithsheffer of @UCBerkeley will present groundbreaking research on Hans Asperger's Nazi science. Oct. 4, 3:30 pm, McKenna Theatre. Free and open to the public. #HolocaustAcrossTheDisciplines #SFSU
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Here's a link to an interview on @AMIaudio program, Live From Studio Five #LFS5 with writer @edithsheffer about her book, Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna. This provides a disturbingly different view of Dr. Hans Asperger. stitcher.com/podcast/amiaud…
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A #ReadABookDay PSA to never let anyone make you feel bad for what you enjoy reading. Literary fiction, science fiction, narrative nonfiction, drugstore bodice rippers, young adult, self-help, supernatural fantasy, biographies, or slasher thrillers– just pick up a book.
Thank you @SmmEnBerlin for the feature #AspergersChildren: bit.ly/2NebuRb via @elespanolcom
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Historian Edith Sheffer discusses her book about the legacy of the Austrian pediatrician Dr. Hans Asperger. Next on #LFS5
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Thank you @edithsheffer & @cspan for shedding light on that child-killing Austrian Nazi monster Dr. Asperger. But his autistic psychopath description fits Newtown killer Adam Lanza.
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Tonight at 8pm ET on CSPAN2 it's authors on World War II featuring @Becky_USHMM,@lizamundy, @edithsheffer, and more
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Next week, same time, same place: @edithsheffer with "Asperger's Children." See you at the Dragon! indiebound.org/book/978039360… indeepradio.com
In the Nazi child “euthanasia” program, up to 10,000 children perished in around thirty-seven “special wards” that dotted the Reich. Spiegelgrund, in Vienna, was one of the deadliest. #AspergersChildren #HansAsperger #DidYouKnow
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"We should really be thinking of what we call Asperger's syndrome today as … Wing's syndrome," suggests author @edithsheffer who says British psychiatrist Lorna Wing deserves greater credit for her "pioneering research" into the condition. cbc.ca/1.4783614
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Just finished Asperger’s Children—The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by @edithsheffer. Difficult topic—great read. #BookLoversDay
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Dr Hans Asperger who did pioneering work on autism also collaborated in Nazi euthanization of children, says author @edithsheffer. She argues Asperger syndrome should be renamed as it doesn't deserve the honour of that title. cbc.ca/1.4783614
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Also this morning on The Current: @edithsheffer shares the hidden history of the Nazi connection to autism's most famous researcher Hans Asperger. The author reveals his role in sending disabled children to their deaths in Nazi Austria.
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