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Author Hardin, Jessica A., author.

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

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 194 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice
Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Church work with the sick -- Samoa.
Church work with the sick.
Samoa.
Church work with the sick -- Pentecostal churches.
Church work with the sick -- Pentecostal churches.
Cardiovascular system -- Diseases.
Cardiovascular system -- Diseases.
Obesity -- Samoa.
Obesity.
Samoa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 0813592968 electronic book
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