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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hardin, Jessica A. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.