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Web End = History and First Descriptions of Autism: Asperger Versus Kanner Revisited
Nick Chown1 Liz Hughes2
Published online: 17 February 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Abstract When reading Michael Fitzgeralds chapter entitled Autism: Aspergers SyndromeHistory and First Descriptions in Aspergers Disorder edited by Rausch, Johnson and Casanova, a while ago, one of us was struck by his contention that Kanner was guilty of plagiarism as well as non-attribution of Aspergers 1938 paper Das psychisch abnorme kind (Fitzgerald in Aspergers disorder. Informa Healthcare, New York, 2008) published in a Vienna weekly. Steve Silberman has discovered evidence that Kanner rescued Aspergers chief diagnostician from the Nazis in 1944 so must have been aware of Aspergers work and conclusions. Fitzgerald was on the right track but it appears that Kanner may have plagiarised Aspergers ideas rather than his 1938 paper.
Keywords Academic ethics Asperger Autism Kanner
All students of autism know about the apparent coincidence that Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner reported on their discovery of autism in consecutive years (Asperger 1944; Kanner 1943) and that this is generally regarded as a coincidence. When reading Michael Fitzgeralds chapter entitled Autism: Aspergers SyndromeHistory and First Descriptions in Aspergers Disorder edited by Rausch, Johnson and Casanova, a while ago, one of us was struck by his contention that Kanner was guilty of plagiarism as well as non-attribution of Aspergers 1938 paper Das
psychisch abnorme kind (Fitzgerald 2008) published in a Vienna weekly. In his recent Samuel Johnson Prize winning book Neurotribes based on detailed research into the history of autism research, Steve Silberman (2015) takes this issue beyond one of possible plagiarism and non-attribution. He has discovered evidence that Kanner rescued Aspergers chief diagnostician (Georg Frankl), and a psychologist (Anni Weiss) who had also worked for Asperger, from the Nazis in 1944 so must have been aware of Aspergers work and conclusions. It is clear to us that Fitzgerald was correct about the publication of the two...