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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 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.
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its
evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and
an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire
relationship with food—for better and for worse
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.
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