A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

 

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0h 52m 2021 HD

Hygienic habits are as old as the various human civilizations; but each era establishes its own customs: whether private or public, everywhere and at all times, methods of personal cleanliness have depended on cultural conventions, religious morals, political ideologies and economic interests; because the control of basic hygiene has also been and is one more tool in the infinite exercise of power over the masses.


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