我们是电能体：探寻人体生物电密码 200 年的历程（科普）We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Bodys Bioelectric Code, and What the Future HoldsSally Adee

基本信息

Book Details

ISBN-13: 9780306826634

ISBN-10: 0306826631

Author: Sally Adee

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Imprint: Grand Central Publishing

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 368

Release Date: 10 June 2024

Weight: 327g

Dimensions: 210mm x 142mm x 25mm

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书平装版新增后记：

科学记者萨莉·阿迪（Sally Adee）揭开了生物电领域的神秘面纱——生物电是指流经我们身体和所有生物体的电流——揭示了其被误解的历史，并阐述了为何新的发现将带来应对抗生素耐药性、疏通动脉以及对抗癌症的新方法。

您或许听说过人体微生物群的概念：肠道内的细菌群落对我们的健康有着深远的影响。在《我们皆带电》（We Are Electric）一书中，我们将进入全新的科学认知领域：探索人体的电微生物群。

我们身体的每一个细胞——骨骼、皮肤、神经、肌肉——都像一个微型电池一样带有电压。正是这种电压使我们的大脑能够向身体其他部位发送信号，使我们能够在子宫内发育，并使我们的身体能够自我修复损伤。当生物电出现异常时，就可能导致疾病、畸形甚至癌症。但如果我们能够控制或纠正这种生物电，其对我们健康的影响将是巨大的：它就像一个癌症逆转开关，可以将癌细胞逆转回健康细胞；它能够再生细胞、器官甚至肢体；它还能延缓衰老等等。下一个科学前沿领域或许就是破译生物电密码，就像我们破译遗传密码一样。

然而，这个领域仍在努力摆脱两个世纪以来的怀疑和与伪科学的纠缠，这一切都源于18世纪路易吉·伽伐尼（生物电之父，因电击青蛙而闻名）和亚历山德罗·伏特（电池发明者）之间关于电本质的科学论战。

在《我们是电的》一书中，屡获殊荣的科普作家莎莉·阿迪带领读者穿越激动人心的生物电发展史，展望未来：从维多利亚时代那些声称能用电治愈从瘫痪到腹泻等各种疾病的江湖骗子，到借助巨型鱿鱼轴突取得的进步，再到即将问世的脑植入和电疗药物——以及其中蕴含的伦理问题。

生物电革命由此开启。

Now with an afterword exclusive to the paperback edition:

Science 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.

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 We Are Electric, we cross into new scientific understanding: discovering your body’s electrome.

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.

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).

In We Are Electric, 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.

The bioelectric revolution starts here.

作者简介

萨莉·阿迪是一位科技作家。她曾任《新科学家》杂志专题编辑，撰写了多篇影响深远的文章，其中包括一篇2012年发表的专题报道，该报道向公众普及了生物电技术，并被尤瓦尔·赫拉利在其著作《未来简史》中引用。阿迪的文章曾发表于《纽约时报》、《经济学人》、《BBC Future》和Quartz等媒体。她曾做客《经济学人》的“情报”播客、美国国家公共广播电台的“Radiolab”节目、加拿大广播公司的“The Current”节目以及BBC早餐节目。她是娜奥米·奥尔德曼的小说《权力》（亚马逊工作室出品）电视剧改编版的科学顾问，并凭借对硅谷新兴诊所的深入报道，荣获美国国家新闻俱乐部奖、英国电信信息安全奖和健康作家协会奖。阿迪拥有德国和美国双重国籍，现居伦敦。

Sally Adee is a science and technology writer. Most recently, she was a features editor at New Scientist, 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 Homo Deus. Adee’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Economist, BBC Future, and Quartz. She has spoken on the Economist’s Intelligence podcast, NPR’s Radiolab, Canadian Broadcasting’s The Current, and BBC Breakfast. She is the science consultant for the TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s The Power (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 clinics. Adee is a citizen of Germany and the US, and lives in London.