An ethnic group with shared religious beliefs in PROTESTANTISM. Originating in Switzerland in the late 1600s, and first migrating to the mid-Atlantic, they now live throughout Eastern and Mid-Western United States and elsewhere. Communities are usually close-knit and marriage is within the community.
    

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Patients are a virtue : practicing medicine in the Pennsylvania Amish Country / by Henry S. Wentz ; with illustrations by Paul H. Ripple.

Medical genetic studies of the Amish : selected papers / assembled, with commentary by Victor A. McKusick.

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Patients are a virtue : practicing medicine in the Pennsylvania Amish Country / by Henry S. Wentz ; with illustrations by Paul H. Ripple.

Medical genetic studies of the Amish : selected papers / assembled, with commentary by Victor A. McKusick.