Electromagnetic Environments and Health in Buildings - Derec Clements-Croome

With increasing use of mobile phones and VDUs, levels of background radiation and electromagnetism are rising, particularly in the workplace and also in the home. To some extent this is unavoidable, but the level of dangers is unclear: is it trivially small, moderate or high? What are the risks of illness, and how can these be reduced to minimal or tolerable levels? Are some people more vulnerable than others? What can or should employers, building engineers and designers, product designers, workers and other members of the public do? This book, of which the chapters derive from presentations given by distinguished authorities at a major international conference, aims to present sound technical information on the whole range of key issues.

CHAPTER 1 - Healthy Buildings
Derek Clements-Croome

CHAPTER 2 - Evidence for Nonthermal Electromagnetic Bioeffects: Potential Health Risks in Evolving Low-Frequency & Microwave Environments
W.Ross Adey

CHAPTER 3 - Effects of Electromagnetic Fields in the Living Environment
Cyril W.Smith

CHAPTER 4 - An Introduction to the Naturally Occurring and the Man Made Electromagnetic Environment
A.C.Marvin

Part II - Electromagnetic Fields, the Environment & the Law

CHAPTER 5 - Mast Action UK—Legal Services
Alan Meyer

CHAPTER 6 - Environmental Impact of Electrosmog
G.J.Hyland

CHAPTER 7 - Product Liability, Product Safety and the Precautionary Principle
Simon Pearl

Part III - Emissions & Standards

CHAPTER 8 - What are We Exposed to? The Most Significant Sources of Exposure in the Built Environment
Philip Chadwick

CHAPTER 9 - Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields Leading to Standards
Zenon Sienkiewicz

CHAPTER 10 - Biological Effects of Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields
Magda Havas

CHAPTER 11 - Reduction and Shielding of RF and Microwaves
Dietrich Moldan and Peter Pauli

CHAPTER 12 - Are We Measuring the Right Things? Windows, Viewpoints and Sensitivity
Alasdair Philips

Part IV - Health Effects of Electromagnetic Environments
CHAPTER 13 - Biological Effects of Neutralising Vaccines: the Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields and the Concordance between the Two
Jean A.Monro

CHAPTER 14 - Electroclinical Syndromes—Live Wires in Your Office?
Anne C.Silk

CHAPTER 15 - Health Effects of High Voltage Powerlines
Denis L.Henshaw and A.Peter Fews

CHAPTER 16 - Effects of 50 Hz Magnetic Field Exposure on Mammalian Cells in Culture
Barry D.Michael, Kevin M.Prise, Melvyn Folkard, Stephen Mitchell and Stuart Gilchrist

CHAPTER 17 - Electromagnetic Fields—Interactions with the Human Body
Jeffrey W.Hand

CHAPTER 18 - Evidence to Support the Hypothesis that Electromagnetic Fields and Radiation are a Ubiquitous Universal Genotoxic Carcinogen
Neil Cherry

CHAPTER 19 - Static Electricity in the Modern Human Environment
Jeremy Smallwood

CHAPTER 20 - Screen Dermatitis and Electrosensitivity: Preliminary Observations in the Human Skin
Olle Johansson

CHAPTER 21 - Theoretical and Experimental Evidences where Present Safety Standards Conflict with Reality
V.N.Binhi and M.Fillion-Robin

CHAPTER 22 - Mobile Phones and Cognitive Function
Alan Preece

Part V - Awareness

CHAPTER 23 - Electromagnetism and the Insurance Industry
Alastair Speare-Cole

CHAPTER 24 - PTSD or PTSD 2 Assessing and Responding to Pre and Post Telecoms Stress Disorder
Ray Kemp

CHAPTER 25 - Electromagnetic Environments and Health in Buildings
Nicole Hughes and Michael Dolan

Part VI - The Future

CHAPTER 26 - Exposure Guidelines for Electromagnetic Fields and Radiation: Past, Present and Future
Zenon Sienkiewicz

CHAPTER 27 - Research on Mobile Phones and Health
Sakari Lang

CHAPTER 28 - New Site Sharing Technology for 3G and the City of Tomorrow
Mike Smith

CHAPTER 29 - Mobile Communications and Health
Peter Grainger

CHAPTER 30 - Moving Beyond EMF Public Policy Paralysis
B.Blake Levitt

(printed: 2004, Publisher: Spon Press. Taylor & Francis Group, London)