{"product_id":"we-are-electric-inside-the-200-year-hunt-for-our-bodys-bioelectric-code-and-what-the-future-holds-hardcover","title":"We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSally Adee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity--the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing--its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In \u003ci\u003eWe Are Electric\u003c\/i\u003e we cross into new scientific understanding: discovering your body's electrome. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Every cell in our bodies--bones, skin, nerves, muscle--has a voltage, like a tiny battery. It is the reason our brain can send signals to the rest of our body, how we develop in the womb, and why our body knows to heal itself from injury. When bioelectricity goes awry, illness, deformity, and cancer can result. But if we can control or correct this bioelectricity, the implications for our health are remarkable: an undo switch for cancer that could flip malignant cells back into healthy ones; the ability to regenerate cells, organs, even limbs; to slow aging and so much more. The next scientific frontier might be decrypting the bioelectric code, much the way we did the genetic code. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet the field is still emerging from two centuries of skepticism and entanglement with medical quackery, all stemming from an 18th-century scientific war about the nature of electricity between Luigi Galvani (father of bioelectricity, famous for shocking frogs) and Alessandro Volta (inventor of the battery). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWe Are Electric\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning science writer Sally Adee takes readers through the thrilling history of bioelectricity and into the future: from the Victorian medical charlatans claiming to use electricity to cure everything from paralysis to diarrhea, to the advances helped along by the giant axons of squids, and finally to the brain implants and electric drugs that await us--and the moral implications therein. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The bioelectric revolution starts here.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSally Adee\u003c\/b\u003e is a science and technology writer. Most recently, she was a features editor at \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e, where she wrote some of its most lasting content, including a 2012 feature that broke the bioelectricity technology to the general public and is cited in Yuval Noah Harari's \u003ci\u003eHomo Deus\u003c\/i\u003e. Adee's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e, BBC \u003ci\u003eFuture\u003c\/i\u003e, and Quartz. She has spoken on the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e's \u003ci\u003eIntelligence\u003c\/i\u003e podcast, NPR's \u003ci\u003eRadiolab, \u003c\/i\u003e Canadian Broadcasting's \u003ci\u003eThe Current\u003c\/i\u003e, and BBC \u003ci\u003eBreakfast\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the science consultant for the TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman's \u003ci\u003eThe Power\u003c\/i\u003e (Amazon Studios) and 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. Adee is a citizen of Germany and the US, and lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 9.33 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754156851488,"sku":"9780306826627","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0f692c26ba364032e669375b2d0fc08c.webp?v=1780034612","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/we-are-electric-inside-the-200-year-hunt-for-our-bodys-bioelectric-code-and-what-the-future-holds-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}