Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa (Medical Anthropology)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2019
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780813592947
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780813592930, 9780813592923
- Publisher:
- Rutgers University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/21/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Jessica Hardin
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Health, Mind and Body, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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