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Introducing the study
Family as cause and cure: the emergence of adoption
Contested involvements: adoption before the Second World War
Differences denied: the normalisation of adoption
Differences and identities: the making of modern adoption
Contested attachments: the controversial emergence of "open adoption"
Introducing the archive study
Knowing or transforming the self: tracing letterbox contact
Identity through injury: unfit mothers and direct contact
Conclusions.
Family as cause and cure: the emergence of adoption
Contested involvements: adoption before the Second World War
Differences denied: the normalisation of adoption
Differences and identities: the making of modern adoption
Contested attachments: the controversial emergence of "open adoption"
Introducing the archive study
Knowing or transforming the self: tracing letterbox contact
Identity through injury: unfit mothers and direct contact
Conclusions.