Someone else's twin
Subtitle: the true story of babies switched at birth
By: by Nancy L. Segal
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781616144371
Subjects: Case studies; Twins; Psychology; Infants switched at birth; Mistaken identity
Description: Presents research from case studies in which identical twins were mistakenly switched and separated at birth and raised by families other than their birth families, discussing the psychological consequences, moral issues, and legal ramifications of such events.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.; title: Introduction: discovery in Las Palmas; title: Switched at birth; title: Crossing paths; title: Traumatic truths - I; title: Traumatic truths - II; title: Someone else's baby; title: Determining the damages; title: Three lives; title: Afterword : This day forward