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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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"there is something counterintuitively comforting in a deeply-considered book that contextualizes and justifies the seclusion and uncertainty of the past 18 months ..."
"Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley do an impressively judicious job of explaining exactly why fears of quarantine are understandable and historically justified ..."
"uncanny in its prescience."
"If not for the book's arresting insights, undergirded by archival research and interviews with historians, epidemiologists and public health experts, Until Proven Safe might resemble at times a travelogue of misery ..."
"A captivating survey of the uses and abuses of quarantines ..."
"An informative account for readers interested in public health's impact on historical and current practices in medicine and science."
"It's complicated nature is adeptly explored, including ethical concerns, legal and moral questions, and enforcement challenges ..."
"This thoughtful study couldn't arrive at a better moment."
"Although the authors started their examination of quarantine years before the coronavirus pandemic, their book serves as an insightful history of the present."
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