“Health means different things to different people, but it’s always associated with a certain level of freedom—especially financial and temporal—that allows people to live well, and to focus on relationships and meaningful work.” PeopleDifferentRelationshipsFreedomFocusHealthFinancialMeaningWell Book:Clean: The New Science of Skin Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin
“Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum.” SelfContinuumDichotomyOther Book:Clean: The New Science of Skin Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin
“As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete.” ChangeHealthEnvironmentalDualityObsoleteBodiesWorlds Book:Clean: The New Science of Skin Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin
“[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures.” PowerDecisionsPersonalHygieneBodiesManipulated Book:Clean: The New Science of Skin Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin
“The best advice right now is to think of hygiene as similar to medicine—extremely important in some scenarios, and also very possible to overdo.” ImportantAdviceMedicineHygieneOverdo Book:Clean: The New Science of Skin Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin
“Manhattan's middle and upper classes began to wash in their bedrooms. Even in impoverished tenements, families brought out a basin once a week filled it with water to bathe the children on the kitchen floor.” HappinessHealthy LifestyleCleanlinessHygieneHistory Of Soap In America Book:Clean: The New Science of Skin Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin
“Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status.” CapitalismSellsStatusEffectively Book:Clean: The New Science of Skin Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin