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Reviews
Disc has been reviewed in World Medical and Health Policy.

Reviewed in Washington Post, which stated that Davis "deftly navigates the history of the cellphone and the scientific studies surrounding its use. She picks apart many of the assumptions that continue to guide cellphone regulations. Charting the advances of mobile technology from its earliest days, when Motorola was racing to beat AT&T to create a brick-like phone that the wealthy could show off, Davis describes how current safety standards for exposure have failed to take into account the significantly higher levels of radiation emanating from ever more complex devices."

Reviewed in Time which describes Disconnect as "convincing enough to give you pause before you fire up that iPhone", and states that Davis "shows how industry has been able to twist science just enough to stave off the possibility of any regulation — and demonstrates that researchers are justly afraid of challenging the status quo, lest they find themselves bullied by the industry and suddenly out of a job, denied the lifeblood of research money.... Ultimately, she makes a strong case that we’ve underplayed the possible threat from cell phones. We’re disconnected — even as worrying studies have begun to pile up, however quietly, the message has been slow to reach public health experts and even slower to reach the government."

Many more reviews listed here on book website: http://www.disconnectbook.com/media-coverage/book-reviews/

Criticized by website Science-Based Medicine.

Disc won Nautilus Book Awards.

Given substantial discussion on various media platforms, sometimes{often?} including interviews with author:
 * The New York Times.


 * KALW public radio (San Francisco).


 * Green America.

Editions
Disc was originally published in 2010:




 * (with a new afterword)



Japanese:

Turkish:

Audiobook editions:

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