Αρχική / Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες / Ιστορία / Παγκόσμια Ιστορία / Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ
Τιμή
31,40 €
34,90 € -10%
Διαθέσιμο κατόπιν παραγγελίας
Αποστέλλεται σε 15 - 25 ημέρες.

Προσθήκη στα αγαπημένα

'Timely, eye-opening, provocative – you will see the world differently after reading it.' Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future

Quarantine 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.

Until Proven Safe 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.

Yet 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.

The 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.

'Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley offer answers that will make your jaw drop. Nothing about "quarantine" is as simple or straight-forward as you think.' - Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance

Συγγραφείς: Manaugh Geoff, Twilley Nicola
Εκδότης: PICADOR
Σελίδες: 416
ISBN: 9781509867400
Εξώφυλλο: Σκληρό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 1
Έτος έκδοσης: 2021

Geoff Manaugh is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City, which was a New York Times bestseller and one of Amazon.com’s ‘Best Books of 2016.’ Manaugh regularly covers issues related to cities, design, crime, infrastructure, and technology for The New York Times MagazineThe AtlanticNew Scientist, The Daily Beast, Wired UK, and many other publications. He has also contributed essays to multiple books, exhibition catalogues and artist monographs.

Nicola Twilley is a British-born, US-based writer and journalist. She is a co-host of the podcast Gastropod and a contributor to The New Yorker. She also runs the blog Edible Geography. She lives in New York.

Σας προτείνουμε

Newsletter

Εγγραφείτε στο newsletter για να λαμβάνετε πρώτοι τις νέες κυκλοφορίες και τις προσφορές μας
Ο λογαριασμός σας Τα αγαπημένας σας

Αυτός ο ιστότοπος χρησιμοποιεί cookies

Χρησιμοποιούμε cookies για να έχετε μια προσωποποιημένη εμπειρία, την εξατομίκευση περιεχομένου και διαφημίσεων, την παροχή λειτουργιών social media και την ανάλυση της επισκεψιμότητάς μας. Επιπλέον, μοιραζόμαστε πληροφορίες για τον τρόπο που χρησιμοποιείτε τον ιστότοπό μας με συνεργάτες social media, διαφήμισης και αναλύσεων.