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 ...

The names of Nazi-era doctors are still found on diseases and body parts. By expunging them, will doctors forget lessons of the past? By Rachel E. Gross Edith Sheffer’s young son always disliked ...

What’s the rest of the story of Asperger and autism? Last summer, we learned how the autism diagnosis crossed the Atlantic in the late 1930s. The discovery that two Austrian clinicians made their way ...