A new paper by Herwig Czech provides a review of the life and career of Dr. Asperger during World War II, showing that the pioneer managed to further his career by aligning himself with the Nazis and ...

In the book "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna," Edith Sheffer writes about the doctor who first diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome. Sheffer tells NPR's Michel Martin how Hans ...

A new study has shed more light on the revelations that Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician for whom a form of autism is named, had collaborated with the Nazis and actively assisted in the ...

New historical details link the Austrian pediatrician whose name was used to coin the Asperger’s diagnosis, to the Nazi Party and child euthanasia during World War II. Hans Asperger, who died in 1980, ...

The publication of a new history of autism called In a Different Key, by John Donvan and Caren Zucker, has reopened an unsettling question about the pioneering Viennese pediatrician Hans Asperger: Was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least no one ever put up a prominent statue to Hans Asperger, so we are spared the scene where they bring in the crane to drag ...

The news that Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger syndrome was named, was an active participant in the Nazi regime will come as a shock to everyone in the autism community - but it is especially ...

Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician who pioneered studies in autism and gave his name to the Asperger's syndrome, "actively collaborated" on a Nazi program under which hundreds of disabled ...

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Back in 2012, the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove “Asperger’s Syndrome” as an official diagnosis in their manual. Their decision was based on terminological precision rather than ...

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Hans Asperger's name may become "mud" and be scrapped from the medical lexicon following new evidence he was an active Nazi collaborator, an autism history expert says. New study finds clinician ...