Name: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine (en Inglés)
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Author: Geoff Manaugh; Nicola Twilley
ISBN: 9781509867400

portada Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Picador

Autor

Geoff Manaugh; Nicola Twilley

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

416

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781509867400

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine (en Inglés)

Geoff Manaugh; Nicola Twilley (Autor) · Picador · Tapa Dura

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'Timely, eye-opening, provocative – you will see the world differently after reading it.' - Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future'Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley offer answers that will make your jaw drop. Nothing about "quarantine" is as simple or straight-forward as you think.' - Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of BalanceQuarantine 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.