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Kinship by design [electronic resource] : a history of adoption in the modern United States / Ellen Herman.

By: Herman, Ellen, 1957-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Description: xii, 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Orphans -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 362.7340973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.