The spark of life : electricity in the human body /
Frances Ashcroft ; line drawings by Ronan Mahon.
- 1st American edition.
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.
- 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-319) and index.
The age of wonder -- Molecular pores -- Acting on impulse -- Mind the gap -- Muscling in on the action -- Les poissons trembleurs -- The heart of the matter -- Life and death -- The doors of perception -- All wired up -- Mind matters -- Shocking treatment.
A spectacular account of the body electric, showing how, from before conception to the last breath we draw, electrical signals in our cells are essential to everything we think and do.
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