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Don't Look, Don't Touch The Science Behind Revulsion

Popular Science
By: Valerie Curtis
224 pages
Don't Look, Don't Touch
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About this book

There is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour – our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reaction that makes us draw back, lip curled, when we step on dog dirt is also constantly at play in our lives. It is called disgust. Compared with love and fear, it has been given little attention. Yet a raft of studies show it influences what we wear, what we eat, what products we buy, who we desire, and how we vote. It underlies our attitudes to those perceived to be outside the norm: be it overweight, disfigured, or homosexual. It even guides our moral judgement. How and why did such a powerful emotion evolve? Why do people in widely differing cultures all exhibit disgust at the same things? Valerie Curtis presents a powerful theory based on recent experiments: that its origins lie in the avoidance of parasites. But in humans, with our complex social lives, it seems that the disgust response has spread much wider than its original health-promoting role. Understanding its evolutionary origins helps us both to counterbalance its harmful manifestations, such as sexism and xenophobia, and exploit it for good: Curtis is widely known for her work in promoting hygiene and health care programmes worldwide – work in which the harnessing of the potent disgust response pays great dividends.

Please note, this book is published in the US by Chicago University Press under the title Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat: The Science Behind Revulsion (ISBN: 9780226131337)

Contents

Preface: Unweaving the rainbow

1. Evasion of the body snatchers
2. Into the hot zone
3. Disgust's diversity
4. Maner Mayks man
5. Moral disgust
6. Why disgust matters

Epilogue: The unfinished story

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Biography

Valerie Curtis is an anthropologist and Director of the Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 2002 she founded a global public-private partnership involving Unicef, the World Bank, Proctor and Gamble to promote handwashing. She is the author of a number of important research papers and has written for a range of magazines, newspapers, and journals, including New Scientist and The Economist. She regularly appears on television and radio.

Popular Science
By: Valerie Curtis
224 pages
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