Jessica Hardin

Gebundenes Buch

Faith and the Pursuit of Health

Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592930
• ISBN-10: 0813592933
• Artikelnr.: 51512566