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Philosopher's Zone

Purity, filth and 'promiscuous defecators': why we're weird about poo

June 4 · 36 min · 51.8 MB
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Why are we so repelled yet fascinated by bodily waste? Today we're talking purity, pollution, colonial sanitation regimes, medicine and public health, and how they've been shaped by our deeply ambivalent attitudes to the stuff we all produce (ideally) every day, but rarely think about deeply.