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

Author/creator Herman, Ellen, 1957-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press,
Descriptionxii, 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008002077
ISBN0226327590 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226327594 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226327604 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226327600 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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