Until Proven Safe

Name: Until Proven Safe
Brand: Pan Macmillan
SKU: 9781509867431
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The gripping history of quarantine, from the Black Death to the post-Covid future

Autor: MANAUGH GEOFF

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Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerf...

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Autor

MANAUGH GEOFF

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2022

Pagini

416

EAN

9781509867431

ISBN

1509867430

Enbook ID

37151347

Editura

Pan Macmillan

Greutate

296

Dimensiuni

198 x 130 x 28

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Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something hidden inside of us will be revealed. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean to the hallways of the CDC, to the corporate giants hoping to disrupt the widespread quarantine imposed by Covid-19 before the next pandemic hits through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. Yet quarantine is more than just a medical tool: Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley drop deep into the Earth to tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, strip down to nothing but protective Tyvek suits to see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply, and meet NASA's Planetary Protection Officer tasked with saving the Earth from extraterrestrial infections. The result is part travelogue, part intellectual history - a book as compelling as it is definitive, and one that could not be more urgent or timely.

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