Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion by Dr. Alice Diver
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Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion by Dr. Alice Diver
This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown – or unknowable – genetic ancestries. It looks to law and works of literature across differing eras and genres focussing upon such concepts as inherited stigma, illegitimacy, orphanisation, adoption, othering, reunion, and the ‘right’ to access truths that relate to one’s original identity.
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