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

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.) :; 15 B-W photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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