Until 170 years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands undergo operations every day. Anaesthesia has made it possible. But how does the unconscious mind deal with the body’s experience of being cut open and ransacked? Join writer and journalist Kate Cole-Adams at Nunawading Library as she discusses her book, Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness.
Kate Cole-Adams at Nunawading Library