title: Religious and spiritual issues in medical genetics.
abstract: This article provides an overview of a special issue on the religious and spiritual concerns that arise in the provision of genetic services. It introduces some of the challenges in defining religion and spirituality and provides contexts and summaries for the empirical and normative research that appears in the issue.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, USA. joe.fanning@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Joseph B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Fanning
authors.forename: Ellen Wright
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Clayton
mesh_terms: D005826:Genetics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D012067:Religion