Faith and the pursuit of health : cardiometabolic disorders in Samoa / Jessica Hardin.
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- 9780813592961
- 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
- Samoa
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Pastorale des malades -- Samoa
- Pastorale des malades -- Églises pentecôtistes
- Appareil cardiovasculaire -- Maladies
- Obésité -- Samoa
- Médecine -- Aspect religieux
- Anthropologie médicale
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Church work with the sick -- Pentecostal churches
- Cardiovascular system -- Diseases
- Church work with the sick
- Obesity
- Samoa
- Anthropologische Medizin
- Biomedizin
- Ernährungsgewohnheit
- Ernährungskrankheit
- Stoffwechselkrankheit
- Wertwandel
- Diabetes
- Fettsucht
- Geistheilung
- Pfingstbewegung
- Samoainseln
- 613.099614 23
- BV4460 .H29 2019
- 2019 E-966
- WG 120
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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.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2019).
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.
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