Hygiene in World History
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Hygiene in World History

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eBook - ePub

Hygiene in World History

About this book

This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society's basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease.

Hygiene offers an important lens for major aspects of world and comparative history. The volume explores the ways different regions and major religions approached hygiene both before modern times and through the present with the more recent uses of germ theory. Topics in "premodern" hygiene include toilet practices, remarkably varied views about bathing, and different levels of commitment to investments in hygiene infrastructure. The "sanitary revolution" of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries forms a major dividing line in the book, including the variations introduced by developments like colonialism or communism and various forms of resistance to "modern" hygiene. The book links current, often bitter, debates about hygiene, around practices such as masking, both to the larger history and to recent issues like COVID-19.

Hygiene in World History is an accessible overview aimed at undergraduate and non-specialist readers interested in world history, public health, and the history of health and disease.

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Yes, you can access Hygiene in World History by Peter N. Stearns in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Social History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040418833
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. 1. Introduction: Hygiene and History
  9. 2. Early Stages of Human Hygiene: From Hunting and Gathering to Early Civilizations
  10. 3. Hygiene Advances, Limitations and Styles in Classical and Postclassical Societies: c. 800 BCE–1500 CE
  11. 4. Toward More Explicit Hygiene, 1500–1800
  12. 5. Hygiene in the Modern World: Themes and Challenges
  13. 6. The Hygiene Revolution in the West, 1800–1920s
  14. 7. Hygiene and Imperialism
  15. 8. Independence Outside the West, 1850–1950: Hygiene in Latin America, the Middle East and Japan
  16. 9. Communist Revolutions and Hygiene
  17. 10. Beyond the Sanitary Revolution: Western Societies in the 20th Century
  18. 11. Hygiene and Globalization, 1970s–2020s
  19. 12. Conclusion: Main Themes and New Directions
  20. Index