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Until Proven Safe - The gripping history of quarantine, from the Black Death to the post-Covid future (Paperback)
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Until Proven Safe - The gripping history of quarantine, from the Black Death to the post-Covid future (Paperback)
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List price R280
Loot Price R219
Discovery Miles 2 190
You Save R61 (22%)
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'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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