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Healthcare Challenges Faced by Adopted Persons Lacking Family Health History Information.

Narrative inquiry in bioethics - 1 Jan 2018

May Thomas, Lee Richard M, Evans James P

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An individual's genetic-relative family health history can lead to the identification of high-risk individuals and through this can result in highly effective disease prevention for those at risk. In this symposium, readers will see the very different lived experiences of adopted persons whose access to genetic-relative family health history is limited. All share a common experience of facing obstacles within the...

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PMID: 30220682
DOI: 10.1353/nib.2018.0036

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