Hardin Jessica
a Department of Sociology and Anthropology , Pacific University , Forest Grove , Oregon , USA.
Med Anthropol. 2016 Mar-Apr;35(2):105-18. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1092143. Epub 2015 Oct 5.
Drawing on fieldwork in independent Samoa, in this article, I analyze the temporal dimensions of evangelical Christian healing of metabolic disorders. I explore how those suffering with metabolic disorders draw from multiple time-based notions of healing, drawing attention to the limits of biomedicine in contrast with the effectiveness of Divine healing. By simultaneously engaging evangelical and biomedical temporalities, I argue that evangelical Christians create wellness despite sickness and, in turn, re-signify chronic suffering as a long-term process of Christian healing. Positioning biomedical temporality and evangelical temporality as parallel yet distinctive ways of practicing healing, therefore, influences health care choices.
基于在萨摩亚独立国的实地调查，在本文中，我分析了福音派基督教对代谢紊乱的治疗中的时间维度。我探讨了患有代谢紊乱的人如何从多种基于时间的治疗观念中汲取力量，提请注意生物医学的局限性，同时与神圣治疗的有效性形成对比。通过同时涉及福音派和生物医学的时间性，我认为福音派基督徒在患病的情况下创造了健康，反过来，将慢性痛苦重新定义为基督教治疗的长期过程。因此，将生物医学时间性和福音派时间性定位为并行但独特的治疗方式，会影响医疗保健选择。
