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

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by Valerie Curtis


  feces, vii, 1–5, 13, 28–32, 43, 51, 55, 75, 82–83, 85

  feeling, viii, 2, 34–35, 43, 46, 48, 59, 74, 94, 96, 107–8

  fertility, 14

  Fessler, Daniel, 16, 41

  fetal programming, 53

  fistula, 90, 94

  fleas, 3, 20, 25, 53

  Fleischman, Diana, 41

  flies, vii, 1–3, 25, 53; bloodsucking, 25, 28; blowfly, 32

  fomite, 9, 29, 95

  food, vii, ix, xi, 1–16, 19, 26–27, 29, 33–34, 41–45, 51, 54, 57, 59, 63–64, 69, 82–83, 86–88, 92, 94–95, 97, 100, 107

  frass, 30, 32–33

  Freud, Sigmund, 13, 45

  Fry, Stephen, 54, 94

  fumigating, 32

  fungi, 25, 32–33

  Garcia, John, 44

  Garcia effect, 44

  gay, 89, 99

  gelada, 23

  gene-culture coevolution, 70–71

  genocide, xi, xii, 79

  geometrid, 30

  German measles, 3

  Ghana, 83, 89

  ghetto, 99

  GM foods, ix, 100

  gonorrhea, 3

  gossip, 55, 57–58, 60, 62, 73

  grackle, 26

  Grand Theft Auto, 49

  great tit, 28, 33

  grooming, 59, 105, 107

  group norms, 64

  group selection, 70

  guilt, 71, 75

  guppy, 26

  Géricault, Theodore, 37, 50

  Haidt, Jonathan, 7, 14–15, 74

  hands, vii, x, 1, 4, 12, 14, 26, 34, 46, 57, 61, 65–66, 82–84

  helminthic, 3, 26

  hemorrhagic fever, 3

  hen fleas, 28

  hepatitis, 3, 55

  herpes, 3

  hispine beetle, 30

  HIV, 82, 89

  hive brain, 38, 47, 71

  homology, 34

  homophobia, xi

  homosexual, 98–100, 106

  hot zones, 20, 23, 27–28, 31, 34

  house sparrow, 25

  Huntington’s disease, 95

  hydra, 16–17

  hygiene, xiii, 1, 4–5, 8–9, 15, 24, 39, 41, 59–66, 71, 82, 84, 92, 95, 97, 99, 105

  hygienic, viii, 9–10, 58; unhygienic, 9–10, 61, 92, 99, 105

  id, 13

  immoral, viii, 2, 16, 67, 76, 78–79

  immune system, 5, 27, 41–42

  impala, 25

  impetigo, 3

  India, vii, viii, xiii, 1–2, 13, 51, 83–84, 88

  indirect reciprocity, 70

  influenza, 3, 20

  innate, ix, 10–11, 42–43, 45, 72, 109

  insects, 3–4, 9–10, 14, 25, 30–32, 46, 69, 93, 102

  instincts, 6, 105

  Jamie’s School Dinners, 86

  Jews, 99

  Kalahari, 29

  Kass, Leon, 100

  killifish, 20, 23

  Kolnai, Aurel, 13–14

  Korowai, 51

  Kuru, 49

  Lassa fever, 3

  leech, 25

  leprosy, 3

  lesion, 8–9, 92–93, 104–5

  Liberian civil war, 49

  lice, vii, viii, 3, 20, 25–26, 60, 99

  Lieberman, Debra, 16

  life soup, 15

  Liljenquist, Katie, 75

  lobster, 20, 23

  louse, 3, 22, 48

  Louvre, 37

  love, ix, 54, 94, 107–9

  Lucknow, India, vii, 88

  lust, 13, 43

  macaque, long-tailed, 26

  mad cow disease, 88

  malaria, 25, 82

  malnutrition, 82

  manners, xi, xii, 9, 39, 53–66, 71–72, 74, 78–79, 81, 84, 86, 91, 95, 97, 103, 105, 109

  measles, 3, 82

  meat, vii, 3, 12, 24, 38–39, 42, 44, 88, 94

  Medusa, 37, 39, 42, 45, 47, 50–51

  meningitis, 3

  menstruation, 1, 89

  microbes, xii, 14, 20, 45, 55, 57, 66, 74, 78, 82, 103, 109

  microscopes, 21

  midden, 31, 61

  middle age, 7

  migration, 29

  Miller, William Ian, 15

  minority, 99

  mites, 25, 31–32, 55

  Mongolian pastoralists, 29

  moral, 14–15, 54–55, 66–81, 87, 97–100, 103, 106, 109

  morality, xi, xii, 55, 66, 68, 72, 74, 78–79, 87, 100, 103

  morning sickness, 41

  morticians, 91

  mosquitoes, 25

  motive, 108–9

  nausea, 44, 94, 96

  nematodes, 20, 24, 30–31

  nest, 19, 27–33

  niches, 31, 33, 56, 108

  Nichols, Shaun, 65

  noctuid, 30

  nurture, 15, 83

  Nussbaum, Martha, 99–100

  nutrition, 24, 50, 82, 88

  obesity, 15, 86

  obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), 47, 92–93, 95–96

  obstetric, 90

  O’Hara, Sean, 29

  Oliver, Jamie, 86

  oppression, 99

  oral, 4, 12, 14–15

  ostracism, 57, 73, 98

  owl, 19, 25, 33

  oystercatcher, 26

  Pagel, Mark, 26

  pair-bond, 107–8

  parasite, x, xi, xii, 3, 5–6, 8, 16–17, 19–34, 38, 40, 43–44, 46, 55–58, 61–67, 74, 78–82, 87, 94–96, 101, 104–5

  parasite avoidance theory (PAT), 5, 67

  parental investment, 107

  pathogen, x, 5, 8–11, 15–17, 21, 23–24, 29, 31, 33, 41, 45, 47, 56, 58, 64, 74, 81–82, 94

  patient, 14, 47, 90–93, 95–96

  pencil, 46–47

  penis, 22, 26

  pheasant, 26

  plague, xi, 3, 55, 78

  Pleistocene, 60–61

  plumage, 25

  pneumonia, 3

  politician, 1, 4–5, 79, 99–100

  pollution, vii, 1, 4, 13, 67, 96

  possum, 22

  post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 95–96

  precautionary principle, 11, 87

  predator, 16, 19, 27–28, 30, 40

  prejudice, 95, 99

  primate, x, 23, 26, 34–35, 61, 68

  psoriasis, 89

  purity, vii, 1, 13, 75, 92

  putain, 89

  racism, xi, 67

  racist, 100

  rainbow trout, 25

  rape, 67, 77–79, 96

  rat, vii, 3, 38

  Rawdon Wilson, Robert, 16

  reciprocal altruism, 69–70

  reindeer, 11, 21, 29

  relapsing fever, 3

  reputation, 51, 61, 73

  ringworm, 3

  ritual, 49–52, 93

  rock dove, 26

  Rome, xii

  rotavirus, 3

  Rozin, Paul, 7, 14–15, 41

  Rwanda, xii

  sacred, viii

  sage grouse, 22, 26

  salamander, 21, 24

  saliva, vii, 1, 3–4, 46, 56–57

  salmonella, 55

  SARS, 82

  Savigny, Jean-Baptiste-Henri, 39

  scabies mite, 3, 55

  scent marking, 32

  Schaller, Mark, 16, 41

  Schnall, Simone, 75

  seaweed, 5

  self-neglect, 95

  Seligman, Martin, 44

  sentimentality, 14

  serotonin, 42, 97

  sewage, 91

  sex, 1–10, 13–16, 22, 24, 26, 30, 43, 53, 89, 91–100, 106–7

  sexual abuse, 96

  sexuality, 13, 100

  shame, 58–62, 66, 71, 73, 76, 78–80, 82, 85, 90–91, 96, 98–99

  shit, 2, 85

  skin, 5, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 33, 56, 63, 68, 89, 93–94

  skippers, 30

  slugs, 3, 44

  smallpox, 3

  Smith, Adam, 68–69

  snail, 3

  soap, vii, 1, 57, 72, 82–84

  so
cial exclusion, xii, 85–86

  social phobias, 93, 106

  soul, 15

  Spencer, Herbert, 12–13

  spider, 93

  spider mite, 31

  squirrel, 22, 25

  starvation, 37, 42

  status, 62–63, 83

  Stevenson, Richard, 16

  stickleback, 26

  stigma, 81, 87, 91, 99, 109

  stigmatization, 81, 87, 99

  sunfish, 40

  surgeonfish, 31

  sweat, vii–viii, 1–2, 4

  Swinton, Tilda, 73

  syphilis, 3, 55

  taboo, vii, 13, 37, 94

  tampon, 89

  teenager, 5, 41, 66–67, 90

  thrush, 3

  tick, 3, 4, 20, 25–6, 32, 50

  Tierra del Fuego, 12

  tiger salamanders, 24

  toilet, vii, ix, 2, 13, 30, 46, 53, 60–62, 82–85, 89–95

  Tolin, David, 46

  torture, 67, 77, 96

  toxin, 11, 14, 29, 41, 45

  trachoma, 82

  transgression, 49

  trematode, 27

  trench fever, 3, 13

  trichomoniasis, 3

  trichotillomania, 93

  trypanosomiasis, 3

  trypophobia, 94

  tsetse, 25

  tuberculosis, 3

  turkey, 12

  Tutsis, 99

  Tybur, Josh, 16

  typhoid, 3

  typhus, 3

  ultrasocial, 17, 93, 98

  underground, 4, 6

  UNICEF, ix

  vampire, viii; vampire bat, 25

  vector, 3, 9–10, 21–25, 27

  vegan, 94

  vegetarian, 94

  ventilation system, 31

  virgin, 95

  war, xi, 49, 64, 95, 99

  waste, vii, ix, xi, 1–3, 5, 9, 13–14, 29–31, 33, 55–56, 73, 75, 87–88, 104–5; wastewater, 87

  water flea, 28

  weatherman, 7

  Weil’s disease, 3

  Weiss, Martha, 30

  Wheatley, Thalia, 74

  whore, 89

  World Bank, ix

  World of Warcraft, 49

  xenophobia, 23

  yeast infection, 23

  Zambia, 88

  zebra finch, 26

  Zhong, Chen, 75

  zombie, 49–50

 

 

 


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