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Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley trace the history and the future of quarantine methods and tactics. Quarantine is such a simple, profound, and effective idea that it's almost hard to realize that it is in fact an idea--a concept that needed to be discovered, figured out, refined, and, of course, applied. We are now all too aware of how it is applied, but we know far less about how the idea came to be--and where it may yet go. Until Proven Safe tracks the idea of quarantine around the globe, through time and space, chasing the story from the lazarettos and quarantine islands of Venice--built before communicable diseases were really understood--to the hallways of the CDC, NASA, and the cutting-edge labs and conference rooms where the future technology of quarantine is being developed. The result is a tour of an idea that could not be more urgent or relevant, a book full of stories, people, and insights that is as compelling as it is definitive.
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"Journalists Manaugh and Twilley meld a global view of a timely subject with vividly detailed accounts of quarantines ..."
"Descriptions of the many ways mail has been disinfected (grilling, smoking, application of vinegar, processing through weird gadgets) in prior epidemics and lessons on infection-control behavior gleaned from social insects make for fascinating reading."
"a big-picture history of medical quarantine ..."
"This thoughtful study couldn't arrive at a better moment."
"Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley do an impressively judicious job of explaining exactly why fears of quarantine are understandable and historically justified ..."
"Manaugh and Twilley visit an impressively broad array of quarantine projects."
"An informative account for readers interested in public health's impact on historical and current practices in medicine and science."
"One of the most fascinating chapters in this enlightening book recounts the tireless efforts of the Englishman John Howard, an eccentric social reformer of ample wealth and unfailing courage, whose achievements on behalf of incarcerated criminals and debtors gave way by his late 50s to a newfound concern over conditions within quarantine facilities ..."
"uncanny in its prescience."
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