Herman, Ellen,  1957- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-371) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA8A7123  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adoption--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Orphans--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV875.55  / .H47 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.7340973