Currents of Death: Power Lines, Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health

Brodeur, Paul

ISBN 10: 0671678450 / ISBN 13: 9780671678456

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1989

About this Item

First printing, full number line. The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners and spine ends unbumped; some foxing to page edges and inside boards. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $19.95); Brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 000140

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Currents of Death: Power Lines, Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671678450
• ISBN 13: 9780671678456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +

About this title

Synopsis

Focuses on the health hazards of exposure to electromagnetic radiation such as that emitted by word processors and high-tension lines

Reviews

Controversy over the potential hazards of electromagnetism from neighborhood power lines has moved from the lab to the courts, as school districts and community groups mount protests or lawsuits against utility companies. New Yorker staff writer Brodeur convincingly argues that evidence exists that exposure to such radiation may cause cancer and other illnesses. Low-level microwave radiation poses another danger, he compellingly shows, as Cape Cod, Mass., residents discovered when an Air Force radar station built in the vicinity apparently led to abnormally high levels of cancer. Brodeur details and disputes scientific studies that claim such radiation is safe. He implicitly charges that a cover-up of the dangers has been engineered by industry, government, regulatory agencies and academia. He also reviews studies suggesting that computer video display terminals (VDTs) may induce cataracts, birth defects and miscarriages, and briefly assesses the potential hazards from electric blankets and electrically heated waterbeds. First serial to the New Yorker.
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