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Deliberately divided : inside the controversial study of twins and triplets adopted apart / Nancy L. Segal.

By: Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]Description: xvi, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1538132850
  • 9781538132852
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Deliberately dividedDDC classification:
  • 306.8750720973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ777.35 .S438 2021
Contents:
Illustrious and ignoble: twin studies -- Policies and people: separated by design -- How did it work?: inside the twin study -- Twin brothers with twin sisters: familiar strangers -- "The biggest thing in my life": Kathy and Betsy: -- 60 Minutes: media inquiry -- Dancing solo: Anne and Susan -- Identical, but not the same: Melanie and Ellen -- Parallel paths: Howard and Doug -- "Three versions of the very same song": identical triplets -- Twinless again: Sharon Morello -- Unpublished or unavailable?: in search of the findings -- Yale University Press: the book that never was -- Not just a doppelgänger?: Justin Goldberg -- Artists from afar: Paula and Elyse -- Opportunities lost: Paula and Marjorie -- Fraternal, almost identical: Michele and Allison -- Letters of protest: Oscars and Emmys -- Professional standards: codes of conduct, legalities, and moralities -- Over or unfinished?: continuing controversies.
Summary: "In Deliberately Divided, Nancy L. Segal revisits a controversial study that tracked the development of separated twins and triplets. None of the adoptive parents were told that they were raising a multiple birth baby. The truth was shocking for these parents and twins, many of whom have shared their unimaginable stories for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-488) and index.

Illustrious and ignoble: twin studies -- Policies and people: separated by design -- How did it work?: inside the twin study -- Twin brothers with twin sisters: familiar strangers -- "The biggest thing in my life": Kathy and Betsy: -- 60 Minutes: media inquiry -- Dancing solo: Anne and Susan -- Identical, but not the same: Melanie and Ellen -- Parallel paths: Howard and Doug -- "Three versions of the very same song": identical triplets -- Twinless again: Sharon Morello -- Unpublished or unavailable?: in search of the findings -- Yale University Press: the book that never was -- Not just a doppelgänger?: Justin Goldberg -- Artists from afar: Paula and Elyse -- Opportunities lost: Paula and Marjorie -- Fraternal, almost identical: Michele and Allison -- Letters of protest: Oscars and Emmys -- Professional standards: codes of conduct, legalities, and moralities -- Over or unfinished?: continuing controversies.

"In Deliberately Divided, Nancy L. Segal revisits a controversial study that tracked the development of separated twins and triplets. None of the adoptive parents were told that they were raising a multiple birth baby. The truth was shocking for these parents and twins, many of whom have shared their unimaginable stories for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

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