Pt. I From the Beginning ... -- 1.Captured in a Bottle -- 2.The Deaf to Hear, and the Lame to Walk -- 3.Electrical Sensitivity -- 4.The Road Not Taken -- 5.Chronic Electrical Illness -- 6.The Behavior of Plants -- 7.Acute Electrical Illness -- 8.Mystery on the Isle of Wight -- 9.Earth's Electric Envelope -- 10.Porphyrins and the Basis of Life -- pt. II ... To the Present -- 11.Irritable Heart -- 12.The Transformation of Diabetes -- 13.Cancer and the Starvation of Life -- 14.Suspended Animation -- 15.You mean you can hear electricity? -- 16.Bees, Birds, Trees, and Humans -- 17.In the Land of the Blind

"The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an enviromnental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are by now so entrenched in the human psyche that new research, and testimony by those who are being injured, are not enough to change the course that society has set. Two increasingly isolated worlds--that inhabited by the majority, who embrace new electrical technology without question, and that inhabited by a growing minority, who are fighting for survival in an electrically polluted environment--no longer even speak the same language. Arthur Firstenberg bridges the two worlds. In a story that is rigorously scientific yet easy to read, he provides a surprising answer to the question, 'How can electricity be suddenly harmful today when it was safe for centuries?'"