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A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene (2021)

6.5 | Mar 19, 2021 (DE) | Documentary, History, TV Movie | 00:52

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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Tobias Meister
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Karl-Heinz Leven
Self - Medicine Historian
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Klaus Bergdolt
Self - Medicine Historian
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Mathieu Da Vinha
Self - Historian
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Harald Seifert
Self - Microbiologist
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Klaus Vogel
Self - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director

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