A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: HISTORY OF HYGIENE

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.

PRINCIPAL CAST

TOBIAS MEISTERSelf - Narrator (voice)

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KARL-HEINZ LEVENSelf - Medicine Historian

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KLAUS BERGDOLTSelf - Medicine Historian

MATHIEU DA VINHASelf - Historian

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HARALD SEIFERTSelf - Microbiologist

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KLAUS VOGELSelf - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director