Clean : a history of personal hygiene and purity

The Resource Clean : a history of personal hygiene and purity
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Clean : a history of personal hygiene and purity
Title remainder
a history of personal hygiene and purity
Statement of responsibility
Virginia Smith
Title variation
History of personal hygiene and purity
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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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Action
digitized
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
613.409
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
RA424
LC item number
.S59 2007eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2007 G-716
  • QT 11.1
NLM item number
S662c 2007
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