Hundreds of thousands of people undergo general anaesthetic for surgery every day, but this relatively recent discovery raises questions about our consciousness and our brains that we’re only just starting to consider. Australian writer and journalist Kate Cole-Adams talks about her own experiences with anaesthesia as well as studies and interviews with patients, for a book that gives us no easy answers, but is an engrossing and thoughtful exploration of medical science and what it means to be ‘us’
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