Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves [Paperback]

B Blake Levitt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 13, 2007

With ubiquitous electropollution from cell phones/towers, powerlines, computers, and wireless devices, this eye-opening book is the best resource for parents, community planners, healthcare professionals, and scientists alike. Winner, 1996 Award of Excellence from the American Medical Writers Association. From the earth’s natural electromagnetic background to “Green” EMF safety designs, Electromagnetic Fields explains which illnesses are associated with artificial radiation, how technology impacts human health and wildlife, and how to live more safely.

“If you’re looking for the plain unvarnished truth and the best available advice, this is one book you should not miss.”—Robert O. Becker, M.D., author of Cross Currents and coauthor of The Body Electric

“Other authors have dealt with EMF questions, but none with the clarity and evenhandedness of B. Blake Levitt. This book avoids the extremes of over-dramatization and understatement and delivers the important information in a cool and lively manner.”—Andrew A. Marino, Ph.D., J.D., coauthor of Electromagnetism and Life, and The Electric Wilderness

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About the Author

B. Blake Levitt is an award-winning medical/science journalist and former New York Times writer. She is the editor of Cell Towers, Wireless Convenience? Or Environmental Hazard?; author of 50 Essential Things To Do When The Doctor Says It's Infertility; and co-author of Before You Conceive, The Complete PrePregnancy Guide. She lectures internationally on health/environmental effects of nonionizing radiation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 462 pages
• Publisher: Backinprint.com (December 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595476074
• ISBN-13: 978-0595476077
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Physics > Electromagnetism
  • #30 in Books > Science & Math > Reference

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74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Technical information made comprehensible, July 24, 2000

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Roni Beth Tower, Ph.D. (New Milford, Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves (Paperback)

I am a research scientist with a background in psychosocial epidemiology who became interested in the impact of electromagnetic waves on physical, mental and emotional health when I was confronted with applications to construct telecommunications towers in our newly adopted home town. My ideas and information from physics courses were both rusty and dated. Moreover, in postgraduate work I had learned enough about environmental impacts on fetal and child development, neurological functioning, and sleep cycle disruption to be concerned. I wanted to efficiently come up to speed on theories about the waves' effects and peer-reviewed data that tested those theories. Ms. Levitt's book provided an extremely comprehensible and yet responsible orientation to the mechanisms by which electromagnetic waves operate, the research on their impact that was available as of its writing, and the political and economic influences of industry and governmental forces. PLEASE have her update it with the inclusion of the research of the last few years. Solid research findings are supporting her arguments at an escalating rate and they deserve to be disseminated. The public health hazards of unmonitored electromagnetic waves (especially in the rapidly proliferating rf frequencies) are real and an educated public is our best protection against their potential damage.

54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Way to Educate Yourself About EMFs, August 5, 2000

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Sherry Kahn (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves (Paperback)

As an author of a book on a related subject (magnetic healing), I know firsthand how challenging it is to write in a user-friendly fashion about the complex subject of electromagnetic fields and their effect on health.

B. Blake Levitt's extraordinary commitment of time and effort has resulted in a work that makes this complex subject easy to understand. Not only has she succeeded in explaining the untoward health effects of EMFs, but she also gives her readers a look into the complex political and commercial forces that have led to our current state of affairs.

Faced with the potential of a cell phone tower being placed directly overhead in my high-rise apartment building, I used Ms. Levitt's book as a study guide and subsequently consulted her for additional background information. I have no doubt that this information was key in holding off the installation of the tower.

This book is a "must read" for anyone concerned about EMFs -- and everyone should be!

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for citizen activists, June 12, 2000

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Linda Weltner (Marblehead MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves (Paperback)

As a columnist for the Boston Globe and founder of the Marblehead MA Cancer Prevention Project, I have been fighting the placement of cell phone towers in densely populated residential areas.As a former English major, I needed credibility when speaking of highly technical matters. I didn't want to be dismissed as just another hysterical woman. Reading B. Blake Levitt's book not only enabled me to speak intelligently on this subject, it made me 10 times more of an expert than anyone else in the room, including the salesmen for the telecom industry. Her book is easy to follow, energizing, and constructive and I followed it up by reading more recent articles written by Levitt on the Internet. Our group was so well informed, and able to express ourselves so clearly as a result of reading this book that we prevailed in keeping an additional Sprint tower out of town. Levitt writes for the concerned layperson, and although I avoided the physical sciences in college, I was enthralled by Levitt's explanations because the proliferation of electromagnetic fields never before experienced by humans may turn out to be our next public health disaster. Read this for your grandchildren and future generations.Corporate profit is not the only good.