{"product_id":"9781509867431-until-proven-safe","title":"Until Proven Safe","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe gripping history of quarantine, from the Black Death to the post-Covid future\u003cbr\u003eA riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history but the implications of a system that our lives rely on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times’ \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and electrifyingly written.' Steve Silberman, author of \u003ci\u003eNeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuarantine 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUntil Proven Safe\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39877699895393,"sku":"9781509867431","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28273938.jpg?v=1722498975","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781509867431-until-proven-safe","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}