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152. Asperger
Podcast |
The Allusionist
Publisher |
Helen Zaltzman
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Language
Linguistics
Literature
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Apr 03, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:35:12

Hans Asperger would have been merely "a footnote in the history of autism", so why did he get to be the eponym in Asperger's syndrome? Because along with the usual problems medical eponyms pose, and his work not really earning him the honour, he collaborated with Nazis and sent children to a hospital where they would be experimented on and even killed.

Activist, writer and academic Morénike Giwa Onaiwu discusses the stigma around terms like Asperger’s syndrome and autism, and historian Edith Sheffer talks about Hans Asperger and child psychiatry in Nazi Vienna.

Content notes: Nazis, eugenics, ableism, child abuse, murder. 

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