Editorial: Bloomsbury
Número de páginas: 328 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 18-04-2024
EAN: 9781350428690
ISBN: 978-1-350-42869-0
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an end to age-old afflictions and brought comfort where discomfort had been the unavoidable companion of existence; and helped produce a tripling of life expectancy.