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What is Anesthesia about?

**An astounding work of nonfiction illuminating a crucial element of modern medicine that works for reasons barely understood―even by expert practitioners. *Anesthesia* leavens science with personal experience, and brings an intensely human curiosity to the unknowable realm beyond consciousness.***Anesthetize: to render insensible*. First there's the injection, then counting backwards from ten―and suddenly, 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 baffling gift of modern medicine: the disappearing act that enables us to undergo procedures which would otherwise be impossibly, often fatally, painful. It is among the most crucial and baffling gifts of modern medicine.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 throu

Author

Cole-Adams, Kate

Publisher

Counterpoint Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781640091566

Subjects

Medical, History, Psychology