Clean A history of personal hygiene and purity

Subconscious cleanliness has been with us since the first cell ejected a foreign invader. Even at the earliest stages of human development, our bodies produced pleasure-giving chemical opiates when things smelled or felt clean, inducing us to do things like bathing and removing dirty clothes. The ne...

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محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Smith, Virginia
مؤلفون آخرون: Virginia Smith
اللغة:Undetermined
English
منشور في: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2007
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الملخص:Subconscious cleanliness has been with us since the first cell ejected a foreign invader. Even at the earliest stages of human development, our bodies produced pleasure-giving chemical opiates when things smelled or felt clean, inducing us to do things like bathing and removing dirty clothes. The need to be clean led directly to socialization, as we turned to our fellows for help with those hard to reach spots. In Eurasia during the Bronze Age, an emerging hierarchy of wealthy elites turned their love of grooming into an explosion of the cosmetic and luxury goods industry, greatly effecting the culture and economy of a vast area and leading to advances in chemistry and medicine
وصف مادي:viii, 457 p.
ill.
21 cm
ردمك:0199297797
9780199297795