Opening Up the World of Quarantine with Nicola Twilley

Inquiring Minds

Female Host, Critical Thinking, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Interview, Science, Social Sciences

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 2019—before Covid-19 had emerged—author, researcher, and ‘Gastropod’ co-host Nicola Tilley and her husband and co-author Geoff Manaugh told a rapt audience, “You and everyone around you is going to be quarantined, is going to experience quarantine in your lifetimes.” They had just presented their extensive research into quarantine that would ultimately become their new book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. The book provides remarkably valuable information and insight into this now all too familiar part of life and its relationship with freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	You and Betty and the Nancy's and Bill's and Joes and Jane's will find in the study of science
0:06.4	a richer, more rewarding life.
0:10.7	Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.
0:14.2	This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.
0:18.2	We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.
0:22.6	There is more than what we see.
0:30.6	Hey, welcome to inquiring minds. I'm Andrea Viscontas. This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide. We want to
0:39.1	find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters. I made this show a COVID-19
0:44.6	free zone back in March 2020. I wanted a space where we could talk about science that didn't
0:50.2	involve the pandemic. A kind of safe space, if you will. And so we've kept true to that.
0:55.8	But now, as it seems like the pandemic is waning, at least in much of the world, that things are
1:01.4	reopening. I'm wondering what lessons we've learned. And there are at least two people that were
1:07.0	thinking about pandemics and quarantine well before 2020. Jeff Mena and Nicola Twilly.
1:13.7	They've just come out with a book called Until Proven Safe, The History and Future of Quarantine.
1:19.7	You might know Nikki from her popular podcast, Gastropod, about the science and history of food.
1:26.1	She's an incredible researcher, and this book is no exception.
1:31.0	I didn't know there was so much to know about quarantine.
1:37.9	Nicola Twilly, welcome to inquiring minds.
1:40.7	Thank you for having me.
1:42.0	You wrote a book about quarantine and you started researching it
1:45.4	long before COVID. What made you think about looking into the history of quarantine before the
1:52.6	pandemic? Well, it's funny, actually, this story goes back a long way. My co-author and husband
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