Author: Burgess, Adam
Title: Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. orig.boards. 24x16cm, x,301 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introductory chapter: themes, influences phones and risk; The mobile 'revolution'; Mobile discontents and the origins of microwave fears;Radiating uncertainty; Diffusing anxiety: international dissemination and national responses to mobile fears; The culture of precaution; Problems of precaution and responsibility ["Adam Burgess' study is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid 1990s. Explaining that the related health anxieties had little substantial basis, Burgess traces the origins of the panic and how and why it grew so significantly in some societies, but not in others. The book also outlines a history and sociology of the cell phone, and compares popular reactions to other technologies, such as x-rays and radar" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: Sociology of Science, Cell Telephones, Celllular Phones, Public Health, Low-level Radiation, Mobile Phone, , ,