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The Clean Body, by Peter Ward 2019 In the midst of the global Covid pandemic, the author of The Clean Body: a Modern History \(2019\) showed that not only has the concept of clean been in flux throughout modern history, but that it is a social construction \. Peter Ward made a convincing argument that what constit­uted cleanliness was a shifting ideal that could rest on one’s ability to pay for it\. In Ward’s timelines it became clear that from C16th-C17th, the body was not the main object of...