Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Cole-Adams, Kate

Verlag: Counterpoint, Berkeley, California, 2017

Beschreibung

As new condition white boards with a blue spine and red spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources; and Index. "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 wold otherwise be impossibly, often fatally, painful. In the past 150 years, anesthesia has made surgical intervention routine, from open-heart surgery to the face-lift. 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 all? Kate Cole-Adams weaves her own personal experiences with surgery and its aftermath with the explorations and personal accounts of others, doctors and patients alike - accounts of people who wake under the knife, who experience traumatic reactions, dreams, hallucinations, and submerged memories - accounts that evoke and illuminate the provisional nature of the self. Haunting, lyrical, sometimes shattering, Cole-Adams leavens science with personal experience, and brings an intensely human curiosity to the unknowable realm beyond consciousness." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004974

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the ...

Verlag: Counterpoint, Berkeley, California

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition