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"Using first-hand accounts and sources, Clean unfolds the long history of personal hygiene and purity from pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, from medieval ascetics to 21st century cosmetics."--Jacket.
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Baths, Hygiene, History of Medicine, HistoryEdition | Availability |
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Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity
2007, Oxford University Press
in English
0199297797 9780199297795
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Table of Contents
Bio-physicality
The cosmetic toilette
Greek hygiene
Roman baths
Asceticism
Medieval morals
Protestant regimens
Civil cleanliness
Health crusaders
The body beautiful.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-436) and index.
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