Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine / Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley.
Publisher: New York : MCD, 2021Description: 396 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 22 cmContent type:- cartographic image
- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374126585
- 9780374126582
- 614.46 23
- RA655 .M36 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley explore the history and future of quarantine, from the Black Death to Big Data.--Provided by the publisher.
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