{"product_id":"9781922268747","title":"Anaesthesia","description":"Author: Cole-Adams, Kate\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922268747\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Apr 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing work of creative non-fiction exploring the mysteries of general anaesthesia, now in a smaller, competitively priced format.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the-and then you wake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about what happens in between.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands undergo operations every day. Anaesthesia has made it possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut how much do we really know about what happens to us on the operating table? 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 how can we help ourselves through it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaunting, lyrical, sometimes shattering,\u003ci\u003e Anaesthesia\u003c\/i\u003e leavens science with personal experience to bring an intensely human curiosity to the unknowable realm beyond consciousness.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48185186910366,"sku":"UBD-9781922268747","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922268747.jpg?v=1787486150","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922268747","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}