Paternity : : The Elusive Quest for the Father / / Nara B. Milanich.

• Übergeordnet: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Milanich, Nara B.,
• Ort / Verlag: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• Beschreibung: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Weitere Titel: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PROLOGUE WHO’S YOUR DADDY? --; 1. LOOKING FOR THE FATHER --; 2. THE CHARLATAN AND THE OSCILLOPHORE --; 3. BLOOD WORK --; 4. CITY OF STRANGERS --; 5. BODIES OF EVIDENCE --; 6. JEWISH FATHERS, ARYAN GENEALOGIES --; 7. TO THE WHITE HUSBAND A BLACK BABY --; 8. CITIZEN FATHERS AND PAPER SONS --; EPILOGUE PATERNITY IN THE AGE OF DNA --; ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX
• Zusammenfassung: For most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political nature of the age-old question: Who’s your father?
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674239982; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674239982
• Zugangseinschränkungen: restricted access
• Hierarchiestufe: Monografie
• Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: Nara B. Milanich.

For most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political n...