From Womb to Tomb: Learning to Live with Documents

Official records are ubiquitous in American life. Even before a birth certificate is issued for a child, medical professionals create an ultrasound image. The family regards that image as sublime, but the doctor scutinizes it in a different way. When a child is older, the birth certificate is what t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frederick Guyette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Akron Press 2017-06-01
Series:Proceedings from the Document Academy
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Online Access:https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol4/iss1/2