Jessica Hardin

Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that shed light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides tools to manage issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.

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Produktdetails

• Medical Anthropology
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Altersempfehlung: ab 19 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592930
• ISBN-10: 0813592933
• Artikelnr.: 51512566

Autorenporträt

Jessica Hardin is an assistant professor of anthropology at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She is the co-editor of Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings.  

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Glossary
Note on Pronunciation
Map
Foreword
Chapter 1: Salvation and Metabolism
Chapter 2: Ethnography between Clinic and Church
Chapter 3: Discerning Ambiguous Risks
Chapter 4: Freedom and Health Responsibility
Chapter 5: Embodied Analytics
Chapter 6: Well-being and Deferred Agency
Chapter 7: Support Synergies
Chapter 8: Integrating Faith into Healthcare Practice
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index