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Author Hardin, Jessica A., author.

Title Faith and the pursuit of health : cardiometabolic disorders in Samoa / Jessica Hardin
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 194 pages)
Series Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice
Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Contents 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
Summary 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. -- Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2019)
Subject Church work with the sick -- Samoa
Church work with the sick -- Pentecostal churches.
Cardiovascular system -- Diseases.
Obesity -- Samoa
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Cardiovascular Diseases -- ethnology
Metabolic Syndrome -- ethnology
Religion and Medicine
Anthropology, Medical
Cardiovascular Diseases
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Medical anthropology
Church work with the sick -- Pentecostal churches
Cardiovascular system -- Diseases
Church work with the sick
Obesity
Anthropologische Medizin
Biomedizin
Ernährungsgewohnheit
Ernährungskrankheit
Stoffwechselkrankheit
Wertwandel
Diabetes
Fettsucht
Geistheilung
Pfingstbewegung
SUBJECT Samoa
Subject Samoa
Samoainseln
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0813592968
9780813592961