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Clean : a history of personal hygiene and purity /
A pioneering history of personal hygiene and body-care, from the earliest times to the present. From pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, Virginia Smith looks at how different cultures have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness and shows how, throughout history, this strivin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A pioneering history of personal hygiene and body-care, from the earliest times to the present. From pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, Virginia Smith looks at how different cultures have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness and shows how, throughout history, this striving for purity has brought great social benefits as well as great tragedies. - ;Why do we still have nits? What exactly are 'purity rules'? And why have baths scarcely changed in 200 years?. The long history of personal hygiene and purity is a fascinating subject that reveals how closely we are linked. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 457 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-436) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191538193 0191538191 0199297797 9780199297795 1281155209 9781281155207 9786611155209 6611155201 1429489952 9781429489959 |