We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome

Paperback Published on: 01/02/2024
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Synopsis

A BEST BOOK OF 2023 FOR THE TELEGRAPH, FINANCIAL TIMES,NEW SCIENTIST AND STYLIST
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ 2023

Discover the next frontier of scientific understanding: your body's electrome.

Every cell in your body - bones, skin, nerves, muscle - has a voltage, like a tiny battery. This bioelectricity is why your brain can send signals to your body, why it develops and how it heals itself.

In We Are Electric, award-winning science writer Sally Adee explores the colourful history of bioelectricity and journeys into the remarkable future of the discipline, through today's laboratories where real-world medical applications are being developed.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781838853365
  • Number of pages: 352
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
  • Weight: 236g
  • Languages: English

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We Are Electric
Very interesting tour.
Fascinating, liked the story of Galvani's journey, the problems he had being accepted and those scientists who experimented on themselves by inserting wire... READ MORE
Jim