Anaesthesia
The Gift of Oblivion
ISBN-13: 9781925498202
Contributor(s): Kate Cole-Adams
Subject: General Science
Publisher Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Publication Date: 22-02-2018
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£12.99
About the book
A hundred and seventy years ago many people would have chosen to die rather than undergo the ordeal of surgery. Today, even major operations are routine. Anaesthesia has made them possible. But how much do we really know about what happens when we go under? Can we hear what's going on around us? Is pain still pain if we are not awake to feel it, or don't remember it afterwards? How does the unconscious mind deal with the body's experience of being cut open and ransacked? And what happens to those rare patients who wake up under the knife?