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Ellen Herman

Department of History, University of Oregon


 

HIST 365, Winter 2004, Week 7
Outline and Key Terms

1. Social/Legal Regulation of Family-Formation: The Logic of Modern Adoption Reform

2. Adoption Science and Technology: the Growth of an Adoption Research Industry

3. Matching: Rationale, Criticism, Controversies

 

fundamental regulatory reforms: investigation, supervision, probation, professionalism (exemplified in Minnesota adoption law of 1917)

records: from confidentiality to secrecy

adoption research: field, outcome, nature-nurture, and psychopathology studies