Deletion of The Body Electric (book)

Comment: Apparent , but several of those GS citations are reliable. -- Special:Contributions/202.124.73.7|202.124.73.7
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Comment: to Electrotherapy.  The book does seem to be significant in that field but I've not managed to find very much notability in the book itself (as distinct from the ideas it advances). There are plenty of citations to this book in reputable scientific journals (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF00052144, http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0003-9993/PIIS0003999397903324.pdf, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0730725X89905560). Of these, I was only able to read the second for free and it's pretty typical of scientific citations: "Static and fluctuating electromagnetic fields have been applied with apparent success for the management of pain in a variety of orthopedic conditions, most commonly traumatic bone fractures or surgical osteotomies.9-11" where the three cited works are this book, another book by Becker and a paper by other authors; I think that's the only mention of the book in that article. This is fairly typical of scientific citations: they're unlikely to discuss the book in the sort of detail required by criterion&nbsp;1 of ; they tend to give a summary of at most one or two sentences.  However, the book did seem to attract some media attention when it was published, though all of this is paywalled so I've not been able to judge how substantial it is: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/680596652.html?dids=680596652:680596652&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+12%2C+1985&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Review+1+--+No+Title&pqatl=google LA Times and a "brief review" in the New York Times is mentioned in this http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/12/books/l-electromagnetic-healing-229478.html letter to the editor.  Since availability of 1980s newspapers on the web isn't great, it's possible that it received more attention than that. There are also a couple of articles in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/88012546.html?dids=88012546:88012546&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+16%2C+1987&author=CAROLYN+REUBEN%2C+North+American+Syndicate&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=THE+OTHER+KIND%27+OF+RADIATION%3A+CAN+IT+HARM+US%3F&pqatl=google http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/88012544.html?dids=88012544:88012544&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+17%2C+1987&author=CAROLYN+REUBEN%2C+North+America+Syndicate&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=RADIATION+SAFETY+MEASURES+TO+TAKE+AT+HOME%2C+WORK&pqatl=google from 1987 which include comments from Becker and might also include some discussion of the book. If somebody who has access to these various newspaper articles can evaluate them, I might change to a week keep
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