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Family Health History: Invaluable for Adoptees' Medical Care and Self Identity.

Narrative inquiry in bioethics - 1 Jan 2018

Lord Pat C

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Adoption is one of several ways to have a family. Adoption is unique in that it involves birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees. For many adoptees, there is no information about their birth family health history which can create healthcare challenges. In these narratives, many adoptees discuss genetic testing as a substitution for their birth family health history which is one common theme in these...

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PMID: 30220698
DOI: 10.1353/nib.2018.0052

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