Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine / Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manaugh, Geoff, author.

Twilley, Nicola, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quarantine--History.

Quarantine.

Epidemics--History.

Epidemics.

History.

COVID-19 (Disease)--History.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Summary:

"Journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley explore the history and future of quarantine, from the Black Death to Big Data"-- Provided by publisher.

Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Manaugh and Twilly track the history and future of quarantine around the globe. It is a story of emergency isolation, but they also guide us through a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert; plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply; and a meeting with NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I ENCOUNTERING UNCERTAINTY

1. The Coming Quarantine

pt. II BUILDING QUARANTINE

2. The Quarantine Tourist

3. Postmarks from the Edge

4. An Extraordinary Power

5. Alone Together

pt. III ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL, ALIEN

6. Biology at the Border

7. A Million Years of Isolation

8. All the Planets, All the Time

pt. IV DISTANCE ASSISTANCE

9. Algorithms of Quarantine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374126582

0374126585

OCLC:

1182581663

Publisher Number:

99987944361