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WE ARE ELECTRIC: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
Author: Sally Adee
Publisher: Hachette
Pages: 352
Price: $30
In the spring of 1969, I was committed to a British hospital — “asylum” was the word chiselled on its Victorian archway — where during my weeks of enforced residence I was given six memorably disagreeable jolts of electricity through my brain. It was the same treatment — electro-convulsive therapy, ECT — as was infamously administered to R P McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Though things didn’t turn out too well for the character, in
