Clean : a history of personal hygiene and purity / Virginia Smith.

  • Smith, Virginia (Virginia Sarah)
Date:
2007
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Physical description

viii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Contributors

Contents

Bio-physicality -- The cosmetic toilette -- Greek hygiene -- Roman baths -- Asceticism -- Medieval morals -- Protestant regimens -- Civil cleanliness -- Health crusaders -- The body beautiful.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-436) and index.

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Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JK /SMI
    		Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9780199297795
  • 0199297797