Until Proven Safe - The gripping history of quarantine, from Black Death to post Covid

A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history but the implications of a system that our lives rely on.

About the author

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 Magazine, The Atlantic, New 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.

Summary

A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history but the implications of a system that our lives rely on.

Foreword

A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history but the implications of a system that our lives rely on.

Additional text

Strap on your plague beaks and round up the loose women! In this intrepid, occasionally creepy jaunt through seven centuries of disease control, Twilley and Manaugh prove that the past is never dead; it’s just in quarantine.

Product details

• Authors: Geof Manaugh, Geoff Manaugh, Manaugh Geoff, Nicola Twilley, Twilley Nicola
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781509867431
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-6743-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Human Rights, MEDICAL / Ethics, HISTORY / Modern / General, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Infection Control, Infectious & contagious diseases, Social and cultural history, Human rights, civil rights, History: plagues, diseases etc, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Infectious and contagious diseases, History: plagues, diseases, famines