Synopses & Reviews
The first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the 1990s.
Review
"...Burgess's study of mobile phones contains a general and worrying message of small or non-existent risk being emphasised to advance social policy and influence the direction of scientific research." British Medical Journal
Review
"A masterful treatment of an important but very neglected subject." New Media &Society
Table of Contents
1. Introductory chapter: themes, influences; phones and risk; 2. The mobile 'revolution'; 3. Mobile discontents and the origins of microwave fears; 4. Radiating uncertainty; 5. Diffusing anxiety: international dissemination and national responses to mobile fears; 6. The culture of precaution; 7. Problems of precaution and responsibility.