Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine
Manaugh, Geoff2021
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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 Covid19 before the next pandemic hits through surveillance and algorithmic prediction.
Main title:
Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine / Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley.
Author:
Manaugh, Geoff, authorTwilley, Nicola, 1978-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2021.
Collation:
396 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509867400 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
614.46614.46 MANA614.46 MAN
Language:
English
BRN:
1924639