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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardin, Jessica A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Temas:
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
Pastorale des malades > Samoa.
Pastorale des malades > Églises pentecôtistes.
Appareil cardiovasculaire > Maladies.
Obésité > Samoa.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
Anthropologie médicale.
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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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