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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body - Hardcover

Ashcroft, Frances

 
9780393078039: The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393078035 ISBN 13: 9780393078039
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the beating of our hearts.The history of how scientists discovered the role of electricity in the human body is a colorful one, filled with extraordinary personalities, fierce debates, and brilliant experiments. Moreover, present-day research on electricity and ion channels has created one of the most exciting fields in science, shedding light on conditions ranging from diabetes and allergies to cystic fibrosis, migraines, and male infertility. With inimitable wit and a clear, fresh voice, award-winning researcher Frances Ashcroft weaves together compelling real-life stories with the latest scientific findings, giving us a spectacular account of the body electric.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Frances Ashcroft is an award-winning scientist, a professor of physiology at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of both Trinity College Oxford and the Royal Society, and an internationally best-selling author. She lives in Oxford, UK.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393078035
ISBN 13 
9780393078039
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
339
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