title: Christianity, health, and genetics.
abstract: Health is an intrinsic value that Christians should respect, but it is not the highest value. Christians should be willing to jeopardize their own health for the health of others, and should repudiate any idea that genetic problems are the result of sin. Rather, sin leads us to make genetic problems harder to live with than they should be.
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center at Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. david.h.smith@yale.edu
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity; D005826:Genetics, Medical; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans