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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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