Until proven safe

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Uiterlijk 15 november in huis

A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history but the implications of a system that our lives rely on.

'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times’ Best Books of the Year

'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and electrifyingly written.' Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

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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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 maart 2022

Aantal pagina's: 416

Hoofdauteur: Geoff Manaugh

Tweede Auteur: Nicola Twilley

Hoofduitgeverij: Picador

Originele titel: Until Proven Safe: The gripping history of quarantine, from the Black Death to the post-Covid future

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Product breedte: 130 mm

Product hoogte: 27 mm

Product lengte: 197 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 129 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm

Verpakking lengte: 195 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 670 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9781509867431

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