Animal electricity : how we learned that the body and brain are electric machines / Robert B. Campenot.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.

xii, 340 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-327) and index.

Animal electricity -- A world of cells, molecules, and atoms -- The animal battery -- Hodgkin and Huxley before the war -- The mystery of nerve conduction explained -- Heart to heart -- Nerve to muscle -- Use it or lose it -- Broadcasting in the volume conductor -- The bionic century.