Faith and the Pursuit of Health : Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa / Jessica Hardin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardin, Jessica, Author.

Series:

Medical Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church work with the sick--Samoa.

Church work with the sick.

Church work with the sick--Pentecostal churches.

Cardiovascular system--Diseases.

Cardiovascular system.

Obesity--Samoa.

Obesity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 194 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Foreword / Manderson, Lenore

Note on Pronunciation

1. Salvation and Metabolism

2. Ethnography between Church and Clinic

3. Discerning Ambiguous Risks

4. Freedom and Health Responsibility

5. Embodied Analytics

6. Well-Being and Deferred Agency

7. Support Synergies

8. Integrating Faith into Healthcare Practice

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-184) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-9296-8

OCLC:

1125185371