Mobile phone masts: Protesting the scientific evidence

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 387-410

  Drake, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748533505     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662506057246     Document Type: Article

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