Biological Effects of Microwaves

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About the Authors:
STANISLAW BARAN SKI,'born in 1927, began his scientific career in 1949 as a junior research assistant at the Department of Histology and Embryology of the Medical Academy in Warsaw, where he is still a part-time research worker. In 1952 he began to work at the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Warsaw, of which he is at present director. Following the Polish system, he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine at the Medical Faculty in Warsaw by presenting a thesis on the mfluence of hypoxia on the central nervous system (experimental investigations) in 1961. In 1967, for a thesis on specific bioeffects of microwave irradiation, he was accorded the degree of decent (doktor habilitowany medycyny), also by the Warsaw Faculty. In 1972, he was nominated professor of aviation medicine by the State Council of the Polish People's Republic. He was elected member of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine in 1965 (vice-president, 1968-1970), and a... Tovább

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About the Authors:
STANISLAW BARAN SKI,'born in 1927, began his scientific career in 1949 as a junior research assistant at the Department of Histology and Embryology of the Medical Academy in Warsaw, where he is still a part-time research worker. In 1952 he began to work at the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Warsaw, of which he is at present director. Following the Polish system, he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine at the Medical Faculty in Warsaw by presenting a thesis on the mfluence of hypoxia on the central nervous system (experimental investigations) in 1961. In 1967, for a thesis on specific bioeffects of microwave irradiation, he was accorded the degree of decent (doktor habilitowany medycyny), also by the Warsaw Faculty. In 1972, he was nominated professor of aviation medicine by the State Council of the Polish People's Republic. He was elected member of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine in 1965 (vice-president, 1968-1970), and a member-correspondent of the International Astronautical Academy. Baranski is the chairman of the Commission on Biological Effects of Non-ionizing Radiation, Committee for Medical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
PRZEMYSLAW CZERSKI, born in 1928, began his scientific career at the same time and in the same Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Academy in Warsaw. During the period 1952-1958 he was a research worker at the Institute of Hematology in Warsaw, and during 1958-1973 at the Institute of Aviation Medicine; at present he is head of the Department of Htiman Genetics at the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw. His doctor's thesis concerned myelopoiesis in the spleen of animals subjected to high altitude hypoxia and experimental posthemorrhagic anemia (Warsaw Medical Faculty, 1961); the degree of docent (doktor habilitowany medycyny) was awarded by the same faculty in 1967 for experimental investigations on the developmental pluripotentiality of lymphoidal tissue cells. He was elected a member of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine in 1970. During the period 1968-1971, Czerski was the chairman of the experts committee which prepared the Polish microwave safe exposure limits introduced by law on May 25, 1972. He was a member of the working group on electromagnetic pollution. Commission I of International Union of Radio Sciences, and secretary of the Commission on Biologic Effects of Non-ionizing Radiation, Committee for Medical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
The close collaboration of the authors dates back to 1949; their common interests are histology and cytology, aviation medicine, and the bioeffects of microwave radiation. The authors have carried out common experimental investigations, publishing their results in many scientific journals. Moreover, Czerski has had considerable experience in the practical prevention of microwave health hazards.
The authors state that writing this book was the most difficult undertaking during the 23 years of their collaboration and ask ther eader for forbearance.
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Biological Effects of Microwaves
by
S. Baranski and P. Czerski
1976, pp. 234, 72 figures, 30 tables, clothbinding
The main aim of this book is to present to the English-speaking reader a critical survey of the literature on the biological effects of microwaves. This topic has become recently one of the most discussed problems in industrial and consumer health protection, as well as environmental protection. Because of this, many representatives of various specialities with different training backgrounds (physicians, biologists, hygienists, electronic engineers, etc.) are interested in this subject. The authors tried to adapt this survey to the needs of this diversified group of readers. Chapters 1 and 2 contain introductory remarks about microwave generation and propagation, presenting in a brief and simplified form the physical characteristics of microwaves, which the biomedical reader may find useful for recalling his early physics courses and as an introduction for further reading, for which the authors suggest certain selected references. Chapter 3 is devoted to mechanisms of interactions of microwaves with living systems; Chapter 4 presents experimental data on the biological effects of microwaves; Chapter 5 is a review of data on the health status of personnel professionally exposed to microwaves and on symptoms of microwave overexposure in man; and Chapter 6 is a review of the safe exposure limits adopted in various countries. In Chapters 3 to 6 the authors present the established facts and observations as well as the comments, interpretations, and opinions to be found in the
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literature. In many instances the opinions expressed are widely divergent and controversial. Having both been engaged in active research for the last 18 years in this domain, the authors also add their personal views and comments. To avoid misunderstandings, the authors try to distinguish clearly in the text between the facts and generally accepted data and the opinions and comments, both those of other authors and personal ones and caution the reader to adopt a critical attitude. Being able between them to use freely the papers published in all the international congress languages and most Slavonic ones, the authors used almost exclusively the original texts, and not translations, to avoid possible distortions, caused by linguistic misunderstandings. With the same aim, one of the authors made the translation himself, preferring to risk bad grammar and style rather than professional misunderstandings.
Three monographs on the same subject were recently published in English—translations of two Russian monographs, one by Presman and a second edited by Petrow (the originals were published in 1968 and 1970), and the translation of the Czechoslovakian mongraph by Marha et al. (original, 1968). The authors tried to restrict repetitions to an unavoidable minimum, striving to add newer data and concepts. The English-speaking reader, who reads these three books and the survey by Baranski and Czerski will have an almost complete survey of all the papers published on microwave bioeffects during the period from 1938 to October 1972.
There are 614 works in the reference list, whicn is supplemented by a subject index, to help in selecting additional specialized reading matter. Vissza