Faith and the pursuit of health : cardiometabolic disorders in Samoa / Jessica Hardin.
Material type: TextSeries: Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xv, 194 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0813592933
- 9780813592930
- 0813592925
- 9780813592923
- Cardiometabolic disorders in Samoa
- 613.099614 23
- BV4460 .H29 2019
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613.09931 DUR Tribal authorities as advocates for Maori health / | 613.09931 DUR Tribal authorities as advocates for Maori health / | 613.0994 EGG Health promotion : strategies and methods / | 613.099614 HAR Faith and the pursuit of health : cardiometabolic disorders in Samoa / | 613.10993 NEW The effect of environmental factors on the health of New Zealanders. | 613.10993 NEW The effect of environmental factors on the health of New Zealanders. | 613.192 MCC Breathe strong, perform better / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Salvation and metabolism -- Ethnography between clinic and church -- Discerning ambiguous risks -- Freedom and health responsibility -- Embodied analytics -- Well-being and deferred agency -- Support synergies -- Integrating faith into healthcare practice.
"About This Book Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels. Pentecostals grapple with how to maintain the health of their congregants in an environment that fosters cardiometabolic disorders. They find ways to manage these forms of sickness and inequality through their churches and the friendships developed within these institutions. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides many Samoans with tools to manage day-to-day issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity."--Publisher's website.
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