Until Proven Safe - The History And Future Of Quarantine, Uk Edition

Untilprovensafe-geoffmanaugh
English | N/A pages | epub | 2.2 MB

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Timely, eye-opening, provocative – you will see the world differently after reading it.’ – Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future
‘Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley offer answers that will make your jaw drop. Nothing about "quarantine" is as simple or straight-forward as you think.’ – Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance
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…