Faith and the pursuit of health : cardiometabolic disorders in Samoa / Jessica Hardin.

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Hardin, Jessica A [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 194 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0813592968
9780813592961

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Faith and the pursuit of health.DDC classification:

613.099614 23

LOC classification:

BV4460 .H29 2019

NLM classification:

2019 E-966
WG 120

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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