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The invisible rainbow : a history of electricity and life / Arthur Firstenberg.

by Firstenberg, Arthur.

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Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020.

612.01442 F527i

Electromagnetism -- Physiological effect.

Electromagnetic fields -- Health aspects.

Electromagnetic fields -- Environmental aspects.

Electromagnetism -- History.

Electricity -- Physiological effect.

Electricity -- History.

9781645020097 (pbk)

564 p., 2 p. of unnumbered plates : ill. (some color), portraits ; 23 cm.

Originally published in 2017 by AGB Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an enviromnental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are by now so entrenched in the human psyche that new research, and testimony by those who are being injured, are not enough to change the course that society has set. Two increasingly isolated worlds--that inhabited by the majority, who embrace new electrical technology without question, and that inhabited by a growing minority, who are fighting for survival in an electrically polluted environment--no longer even speak the same language. Arthur Firstenberg bridges the two worlds. In a story that is rigorously scientific yet easy to read, he provides a surprising answer to the question, 'How can electricity be suddenly harmful today when it was safe for centuries?'"

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