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"The Great Re-Learning"
Tom Wolfe wrote an essay by that name about the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic in the late 60s. Seems that when all the hippie kids decided to do away with the uptight, middle-class rules about hygiene, they started coming down with rather medieval skin diseases...
I shower and wash my hair daily, but that's because I live in a tropical climate, walk a mile each way to work, and my hair is oily (my scalp will break out in zits if I don't). Your mileage may vary. Slathering on hand sanitizer, though, is ridiculous overkill. If anything, it dries out your skin and makes your knuckles crack, thus opening up the path for staph infections. Hand sanitizer is pretty good at getting rid of acne, though.