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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardin, Jessica A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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