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
Autor principal: Hardin, Jessica A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pfingstbewegung
Geistheilung
Fettsucht
Diabetes
Wertwandel
Stoffwechselkrankheit
Ernährungskrankheit
Ernährungsgewohnheit
Biomedizin
Anthropologische Medizin
Obesity.
Church work with the sick.
Cardiovascular system > Diseases.
Church work with the sick > Pentecostal churches.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Anthropologie medicale.
Medecine > Aspect religieux.
Obesite > Samoa.
Appareil cardiovasculaire > Maladies.
Pastorale des malades > Églises pentecôtistes.
Pastorale des malades > Samoa.
Cardiovascular Diseases
Anthropology, Medical
Religion and Medicine
Metabolic Syndrome > ethnology
Cardiovascular Diseases > ethnology
Medical anthropology.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Obesity > Samoa.
Church work with the sick > Samoa.
Samoainseln
Samoa.
Samoa
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (202 pages).
ISBN:9780813592961

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