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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... Read More