Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion, the Mystery of Consciousness

Kate Cole-Adams

Winner, 2017 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award You know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the----and then you wake.This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands u...