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The Jewish Soviet Woman whose pioneering research on autism was stolen by Nazi scientists (en.wikipedia.org)
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Two decades before Asperger and Kanner, Sukhareva was researching autism in children. Her contributions were likely not acknowledged because of her Jewish heritage.

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[–] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

another example of history erased by capitalism

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fkn hell:

Her name was transliterated as "Ssucharewa" when her papers appeared in Germany, and the autism researcher Hans Asperger likely chose not to cite her work, due to his affiliation with the Nazi Party and her Jewish heritage.[6]

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very well

"Asperger's syndrome" is now "Sukhareva's syndrome"

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