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Author Manaugh, Geoff, author

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

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 Maine State Lib. Stacks  OFFSITE 614.46 M267u 2021    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Encountering uncertainty. The coming quarantine -- Building quarantine. The quarantine tourist ; Postmarks from the edge ; An extraordinary power ; Alone together -- Animal, vegetable, mineral, alien. Biology at the border ; A million years of isolation ; All the planets, all the time -- Distance assistance. Algorithms of quarantine -- Epilogue: Until proven safe
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
Subject Quarantine -- History
Epidemics -- History
COVID-19 (Disease) -- History
Alt Author Twilley, Nicola, 1978- author
OCLC # 1182581663
ISBN # 9780374126582
0374126585