Asperger’s Children: The origins of autism in Nazi Vienna, by Edith Sheffer
Author: Edith Sheffer. Review by Martin Shallcross
This is one of the most harrowing books I have ever read. Edith Sheffer is a historian in the USA. Her son Eric, aged thirteen, is among the one-in-sixty children being diagnosed on the autism spectrum there. She dedicated this book to Eric.
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