Untertitel:: An Unsanitised History of Washing
Verlag:: PROFILE BOOKS
Erschienen:: 06.01.2011
Seitenanzahl:: 112
ISBN:: 1847653367
EAN:: 9781847653369
Sprache:: Englisch
Format:: EPUB
Schutz:: Adobe-DRM
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Clean

Katherine Ashenburg

'I return to Paris in five days. Stop washing.' So wrote Napoleon to Josephine in an age when body odour was considered an aphrodisiac. In stark contrast, the Romans used to bath for hours each day. Ashenburg's investigation of history's ambivalence towards personal hygiene takes her through plague-ridden streets, hospitals and battlefields. From the bizarre prescriptions of doctors to the eccentricities of famous bathers, she presents us with all the twists and turns that have led us to our own, arbitrary notion of 'clean'.