Synopses & Reviews
Keys, wallet, cell phone . . . ready to go! Cell phones have become ubiquitous fixtures of twenty-first-century life—suctioned to our ears and stuck in our pockets. Yet, we’ve all heard whispers that these essential little devices give you brain cancer. Many of us are left wondering, as Maureen Dowd recently asked in the
New York Times, “Are cells the new cigarettes?”
Overpowered brings readers, in accessible and fascinating prose, through the science, indicating biological effects resulting from low, non-thermal levels of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (levels considered safe by regulatory agencies), coming not only from cell phones, but many other devices we use in our homes and offices every day.
Dr. Blank arms us with the information we need to lobby government and industry to keep ourselves and our families safe.
About the Author
Dr. Martin Blank is an expert on the health-related effects of electromagnetic fields and has been studying the subject for over thirty years. He earned his first PhD from Columbia University in physical chemistry and his second from the University of Cambridge in colloid science. From 1968 to 2011, he taught as an Associate Professor at Columbia University, where he now acts as a special lecturer. He has served as chairman of the Organic and Biological Division of the Electrochemical Society, as president of the Bioelectrochemical Society, and as president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society. He has published over 200 papers and reviews, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, and Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine.