Reinforcing Loss and Rendering Invisible: Adoptee Experience and the Structural Failings of Biomedicine.

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This commentary discusses the challenge of health care interactions for people who are adopted. These narratives describing how adoptees approach and are approached by biomedicine make it clear that their needs are not being met and that many feel ostracized in clinical encounters. I argue that adoptee identity should be included along with categories such as race, class and gender when we consider intersectional...

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