电与磁（E&M）是许多救生医疗设备的基础，如磁共振成像扫描仪、神经刺激器和心脏起搏器。但E&M也在虚假健康声明中占有一席之地，比如生物磁疗。你如何区分好坏？有时这并不容易：实验容易出现伪影，理论受到假设的限制，临床试验可能会导致歧义。在这本书中，作者把小麦和谷壳分开，说明哪些E&M应用是假的，哪些不是。这本书带读者参观了一系列引人入胜的现象，从一个极端的持续时间效应，如对大脑的经颅直流电刺激，到另一个极端的飞行常客所熟悉的毫米波全身扫描仪。在此过程中，作者深入研究了关于电力线磁场和白血病的争议，这是一个案例研究，探讨了当可疑的说法引发不合理的恐惧时，会出现什么问题。关于手机和脑癌的争论至今仍在激烈进行，尤其是在新5G技术遇到的微波频率方面。最近，所谓的哈瓦那综合症被归因于微波武器，但这种武器的潜在生物物理学尚不清楚。对于所有这些与电和磁的接触，作者是一位著名的生物物理学家，他使用科学和证据来区分事实和幻想。这本书的目标读者是那些想要理解机电与人体相互作用的神秘且经常引起争议的方式的普通读者。它也非常适合生物科学和健康相关领域的学生和专业人士，他们希望在不被理论淹没的情况下学习更多知识。
Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill?: How Electricity and Magnetism Affect Our Health
Electricity and Magnetism (E&M) underlies many lifesaving medical devices, such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners, neural stimulators, and heart pacemakers. But E&M also attracts its share of bogus health claims, such as biomagnetic therapy. How do you separate the good from the bad? Sometimes it’s not easy: experiments are prone to artifacts, theories are limited by assumptions, and clinical trials can result in ambiguities. In this book, the author separates the wheat from the chaff, showing which applications of E&M are bogus and which are not. This book takes the reader on a tour through a range of fascinating phenomena, from effects that are constant in time at one extreme, such as transcranial direct current stimulation of the brain, to the millimeter-wave whole-body scanners which are familiar to frequent flyers at the other. Along the way, the author looks in depth at the dispute about power line magnetic fields and leukemia, a case study in what can go wrong when dubious claims inflame unjustified fears. The debate about cell phones and brain cancer still rages today, particularly for the microwave frequencies encountered with new 5G technology. Recently, the so-called Havana Syndrome has been attributed to microwave weapons, but the underlying biophysics of such weapons is unclear. For all these encounters with electricity and magnetism, the author, an eminent biophysicist, uses science and evidence to sort out fact from fantasy. This book is aimed at general readers who want to make sense of the mysterious and often controversial ways in which E&M interacts with the human body. It is also ideal for students and professionals in bioscience and health-related fields who want to learn more without getting overwhelmed by theory.
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