Kinship by design
Herman, Ellen, 1957-
Kinship by design a history of adoption in the modern United States / [electronic resource] : Ellen Herman. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xii, 381 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA8A7123 bnb
Uk
Adoption--History--United States--20th century.
Orphans--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
HV875.55 / .H47 2008eb
362.7340973
Kinship by design a history of adoption in the modern United States / [electronic resource] : Ellen Herman. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xii, 381 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA8A7123 bnb
Uk
Adoption--History--United States--20th century.
Orphans--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
HV875.55 / .H47 2008eb
362.7340973