The Scoop on Poop: A Historical Japanese Perspective with Alex Bay, PhD
April 16th, 2024
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If you've played Oregon Trail, you're no stranger to oral-fecal route diseases. Diseases like cholera have ended many good runs, and many many more real human lives. It seems obvious to us now how important public sanitation is, but humanity had to work to reach this point. Textbook example: When we think of Japan, we think clean! But it took a lot of social engineering for Japan to earn that perception. Join us with Chapman University Professor and medical historian Dr. Alex Bay and find out more!