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Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine / Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley.

Manaugh, Geoff, (author.). Twilley, Nicola, 1978- (author.).

Summary:

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

Record details

ISBN: 9780374126582
ISBN: 0374126585
Physical Description: vi, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York, NY : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-377) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.