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Preferred term
hygiene
Definition
- In general, adherence to rules of correct behaviour around the body, its excrement, urine and in many cultures, menstrual blood. Originally these were taboos grounded in a religious view of the world and with the development of the germ theory took on the guise of scientific prescriptions of how to behave. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Hygiene]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/hygiene
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