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.

...for a book riddled with rancid and revolting things, Don't Look, Don't Touch is suprisingly difficult to put down.

• 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

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.

...for a book riddled with rancid and revolting things, Don't Look, Don't Touch is suprisingly difficult to put down.

• 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

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.

...for a book riddled with rancid and revolting things, Don't Look, Don't Touch is suprisingly difficult to put down.

• 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