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Early in 2001 I was asked to act as a consultant for an orphanage in a particular region of the Cameroon. My task was to assess the neurological-psychiatric condition of the children who were going to be given out for adoption. The need for this kind of assessment is increasingly expressed by agencies acting as intermediaries between potential parents and adoptees. Some parents may be willing to take on desperate cases, but none want to be ignorant about the kind of future that may lie ahead for their children and for themselves.
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Pamela Feldman-Salvelsberg, Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in The Cameroon Grassfields ( Ann Arbor: The University of Michingan Press, 2002 ), 9–18.
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Piontelli, A. (2008). Stone Idols. In: Twins in the World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230615533_4
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