Bibliograph

Until proven safe, the history and future of quarantine, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, MCD

Type

Label

Until proven safe, the history and future of quarantine, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, MCD

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Until proven safe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1182581663

Responsibility statement

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, MCD

Sub title

the history and future of quarantine

Summary

"Journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley explore the history and future of quarantine, from the Black Death to Big Data"--, Provided by publisherQuarantine 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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

Classification