Religion, spirituality, and genetics: mapping the terrain for research purposes.
Religion, spirituality, and genetics: mapping the terrain for research purposes.
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宗教、灵性和遗传学：为研究目的绘制地形图。
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10.1002/ajmg.c.30195
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2009
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Churchill,LarryR
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遗传疾病常常引发对人类自我认识具有深远意义的问题，例如一个人的身份、一个人所属的家庭或社区，以及一个人的未来或命运。这些更深层次的问题通常被视为宗教和灵性的范畴。这篇文章探讨了宗教和灵性是如何在当前的美国背景下被理解的，以及在过去100年的学术文献中是如何定义的。它被认为是一个实用的，功能性的方法，宗教和精神是重要的理解病人如何反应基因诊断和参与基因治疗。实用的、功能性的方法需要拓宽探究范围，包括任何为人类生活的基本存在问题提供超验意义框架的东西。这种方法还需要暂停对任何特定宗教/精神信仰或实践的真理主张的问题。将提出采用这一广泛工作定义的三个影响。©2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc。
Genetic diseases often raise issues of profound importance for human self‐understanding, such as one's identity, the family or community to which one belongs, and one's future or destiny. These deeper questions have commonly been seen as the purview of religion and spirituality. This essay explores how religion and spirituality are understood in the current US context and defined in the scholarly literature over the past 100 years. It is argued that a pragmatic, functional approach to religion and spirituality is important to understanding how patients respond to genetic diagnoses and participate in genetic therapies. A pragmatic, functional approach requires broadening the inquiry to include anything that provides a framework of transcendent meaning for the fundamental existential questions of human life. This approach also entails suspending questions about the truth claims of any particular religious/spiritual belief or practice. Three implications of adopting this broad working definition will be presented. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.