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We Are Electric

The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome
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A BEST BOOK OF 2023 FOR THE TELEGRAPH, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW SCIENTIST AND STYLISTA 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... Read More
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Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome

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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781838853365

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 236g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Sally Adee is an award-winning science and technology writer. She spent ten years as a technology features editor at New Scientist and IEEE Spectrum magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, BBC Future, Quartz and The Economist. She has won a US National Press Club award, a BT Information Security award and the Guild of Health Writers Award for her inside account of Silicon Valley's young blood clinics.

sally80.com | @Sally_Adee

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