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In Guanine We Trust: Genetic Testing and the Sense of Coherence.
Narrative inquiry in bioethics - 1 Jan 2015
DuBois James M, Antes Alison L
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Aaron Antonovsky, the medical sociologist, defined the sense of coherence as a pervasive sense that the events in one's life are comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful or worthwhile. Research on the sense of coherence indicates that it is positively correlated with resilience and adaptive coping with disabilities and illnesses. The collection of first-person narratives published in Narrative Inquiry in...
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