Author: Karolína
Karolína is from the Czech Republic. She finds it interesting to learn history from stories of „normal people“ who experienced it themselves. Her hobbies are reading and writing.
The Silence Only She Could Hear: A Pioneer of Autism Research
For History Campus editor Karolína and her family she was "Aunt-Doctor". For the age she lived in, she was Růžena Nesnídalová, a renowned psychiatrist and the first woman in Czechoslovakia to describe autism in children. Many years after her death, we have only a few photos and one book that she published. But who was this woman who pushed medicine much further and how does her family remember her?