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Kinship by design : a history of adoption in the modern United States
- Title
- Kinship by design : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.
- Author
- Herman, Ellen, 1957-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xii, 381 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.
- Contents
- The perils of money and sentiment (and custom, accident, impulse, intuition, common sense, faith, and bad blood) -- Making adoption governable -- Rules for realness -- Matching and the mirror of nature -- The measure of other people's children -- Adoption revolutions -- The difference difference makes -- Damaged children, therapeutic lives -- Reckoning with risk.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-579
- ISBN
- 0226327590 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226327594 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226327604 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226327600 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008002077
- OCLC
- 191898081
- Author
- Herman, Ellen, 1957-
- Title
- Kinship by design : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-579