Faith and the Pursuit of Health : : Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa / / Jessica Hardin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hardin, Jessica,
• MitwirkendeR: Manderson, Lenore,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Medical Anthropology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.) :; 15 B-W photographs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Foreword --; Note on Pronunciation --; 1. Salvation and Metabolism --; 2. Ethnography between Church and Clinic --; 3. Discerning Ambiguous Risks --; 4. Freedom and Health Responsibility --; 5. Embodied Analytics --; 6. Well-Being and Deferred Agency --; 7. Support Synergies --; 8. Integrating Faith into Healthcare Practice --; Acknowledgments --; Glossary --; Notes --; References --; Index --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813592961; 9783110653526
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813592961?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jessica Hardin.

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.