Description
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Publish Date | February 02, 2023 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Digital (delivered electronically) |
| EAN/UPC | 9781838853334 |
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
Reviews
"We Are Electric is Adee's thrilling scientific detective story, a rich history that brings us up to date with the latest research"
"Excellent . . . Sally Adee has written an absorbing and fast-paced account of a field of research that could thus herald a whole new era of paradigm-shifting medicine"
"Adee explores the chemical and electrical ferment underpinning all growth and life, highlighting the pioneers and charlatans who discovered and exploited "bioelectricity", [she] also conjures electric medicine: a future of good health, regenerated tissue and (perhaps) extended life"
"Adee writes as a reporter but also as an enthusiast . . . . A lively read"
"This book blew my mind. We Are Electric is a thrilling read, and Sally Adee explains everything from the intricacies of our electric cells to the potential for new medical treatments — and brain-hacking — with a sparkling clarity"
"The ‘ohmigod-that’s-so-cool’ moments come thick and fast as she brings the science up to date, investigating today’s cutting edge and what the future may hold for bio-electric medicine. It’s a vast and hugely exciting area of scientific research, shared with infectious enthusiasm, a real depth of knowledge and smart and funny turn of phrase. You’ll never think of life in the same way again"
"As Sally Adee describes with great wit and insight, we are nothing without electricity: it’s the stuff of life, and of death. This is such a thrilling, compelling and energising book - reading it I couldn’t help picturing the author as Zeus, chucking lightning bolts at me. Such a timely book, too. The future is - I’m sorry, I can’t help it - electrifying"
"Staggering . . . Our future appears electric, and this book does a great job of explaining why . . . Often amusing, always engaging"
"The electrome may be as important to our understanding of life as the genetic code - yet few of us are aware of these groundbreaking developments. With scintillating storytelling, Sally Adee takes us to into the heart of this scientific revolution and its potential to transform medicine. We Are Electric is science writing at its very best - it shimmers with wit and insight. Prepare to be entertained, enlightened and, yes, electrified by this brilliant book"
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