Anesthesia

✍ Scribed by Cole-Adams, Kate

• Book ID: 109522529
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 859 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781619029507

✦ Synopsis

"A work of splendid richness and depth." —Helen Garner, author of Everywhere I Look
Anesthetize: to render insensible
First there's the injection, then the countdown—and next thing you know, you're awake. Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness is the story of the time in between, an exploration of that most crucial and baffling gift of modern medicine: the disappearing act that enables us to undergo procedures that would otherwise be impossibly, often fatally, painful.
In the past 150 years, anesthesia has made surgical intervention routine, from open-heart surgery to the facelift. But how much do anesthesiologists really know about what happens when their patients go under? Can we hear and retain what's going on? Is pain still pain if we don't remember it? How does the unconscious mind deal with the body's experience of being sliced open and ransacked—and how can we help ourselves through it...
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