Kinship by design a history of adoption in the modern United States /

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Main Author: Herman, Ellen, 1957-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Table of 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.