Faith and the pursuit of health : cardiometabolic disorders in Samoa

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardin, Jessica A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Series:Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Subjects:
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
Cardiovascular Diseases
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Medicine > Religious aspects
Medical anthropology
Church work with the sick > Pentecostal churches
Cardiovascular system > Diseases
Church work with the sick
Obesity
Anthropologische Medizin
Biomedizin
Ernährungsgewohnheit
Ernährungskrankheit
Stoffwechselkrankheit
Wertwandel
Diabetes
Fettsucht
Geistheilung
Pfingstbewegung
Samoa
Samoainseln
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Table of 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.

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