Resources

Books, reports and references to go further. Start anywhere: the reading list below is ordered from the most approachable to the most technical.

Books

Electromagnetic Man

A broad introduction to how artificial fields interact with the body, and how our environment changed within a century.

Cyril W. Smith & Simon Best

Electromagnetic Pollution: International Safety Guide

Practical guidance on exposure limits, measurement and mitigation, a useful companion to an assessment report.

David Bruno

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

A comprehensive look at the relationship between electromagnetic fields and human health throughout history.

Arthur Firstenberg

Reports & guidelines

The Bio-Initiative Report

Meta-analysis of around 2,000 studies by twenty-nine authors from ten countries, with redefined threshold values.

Bio-Initiative Working Group, 2012

SBM-2024: Building Biology Standard

The building-biology evaluation guidelines used to judge sleeping areas in particular.

Institute of Building Biology, Germany

IGNIR Guidelines

International Guidelines on Non-Ionizing Radiation, based on the EUROPAEM EMF Guidelines 2016.

IGNIR, Oxford, 2017

Research indexes

EMF Research at emfanalysis.com

A long, maintained list of studies documenting biological effects of electromagnetic field exposure.

EMF Analysis

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