Benjamin A. Elman, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900 / A Cultural History of Modern Science in China.

Benjamin A. Elman. A Cultural History of

Benjamin A. Elman. A Cultural History of Modern Science in China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 336 pp. $39.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02306-2

✍ Geoffrey H. Blowers 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 97 KB

Ellen Herman's study of adoption in the modern United States focuses on the rise of "kinship by design": the concerted attempt to reduce or eliminate uncertainty and risk in adoption through public regulation, professional standards, and expert knowledge. Beginning in the early twentieth century, pr